Is Russia going to try to make another U.S.S.R.?

Question

What is their motive behind the invasion?! I mean what are they trying to accomplish, just invading them? Are they taking back Georgia? Cause this is really weird sounding to me...

I defiantly wouldn't put it past Valdimire Punton to do something this radical, I mean I've saw him in person, me and my grandma, in a nice resort in Ponce, Purto Rico'...and well he looked like pure evil, like a very scary man...

Answer 1

I must say, I was completely taken back when I read this article.

They are making a very risky move, but you have to realize one thing: most countries are focused on other things at this point, as the U.S is already preoccupied with the middle east.

And yes, Valdimire Punton is in fact a man of many...thoughts to say the least. I don't have any doubt that he is trying to gain some territory, my main question is why would he do it now? There has to be a motive, and he must see a strategy for picking this time.

Answer 2

Yes, it is about oil. But here in the former states of USSR, we feel the horror. I watch TV and it is just how it was when the Russians came here. You know, they said that they will make our nation free, and that they do it just for us. Yeah? In my country every one of us has a relative who was killed or deported so we all could be free. I have no hard feelings and instead of looking back I want to see the future. But the future doesn't look good! It looks like the past that we all are trying to leave behind.

People who have never really dealt with it, even me, because I am so young, say that Russia just wants to show that it has strength and power, but they won't go any further. And who cares! This will cost hundreds of lives and changes maybe millions of lives. I am sitting here and I can't do anything.

I obviously didn't answer to your question, but at least I did something and it feels a little better. Let's hope.

Answer 3

No, what they are trying to do is disrupt the flow of oil from the Caspian through Georgia.

Georgia is the site of a length of the Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline, that brings Caspian Sea petroleum from the Azerbaijani port of Sangachal to the Turkish deep-water port of Ceyhan in the Black Sea.  The purpose of this pipeline is to give the EU and the US a way to get oil out of the Caspian basin without Russia being able to interfere or cut it off.

Russia, which already supplies a lot of oil and natural gas to Europe, wants to continue to be the region's number-one energy broker, and sees the pipeline as a threat to the continued dominance of its state-owned oil and gas firms.  The Russian government's support for breakaway enclaves in South Ossetia and Abkhazia exploit ethnic tensions among Black Sea Russians, Abkhazians, Ossetians, and Georgians to make Georgia too unstable to continue piping oil through it. Due to the efforts of Edvard Shevardnadze and Mikhail Saakashvili, the former and current presidents, respectively, the country stabilized enough that the pipeline could be built and put into operation.

Since the effort to prevent the pipeline's construction failed, the Russian government waited for an opportunity to make its move: the U.S. is tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan (I wouldn't be surprised if the recent resurgence of the Taliban there was partly due to covert Russian support) and in the midst of a divisive national election, and its lame-duck President is in China while the world follows the Olympics.

With the US military unable to get involved, unless the rest of NATO and/or the EU makes a move (unlikely), Russia can start a prolonged civil war in Georgia until it has the opportunity to blow up the pipeline.

As I've said before, the Russian governments' ostensible reasons, asserting the rights of ethnic Ossetians and protecting its own citizens, are totally bogus: Russia cares neither for the well-being of its ethnic minorities (Chechnya) nor of its own citizens (Moscow theater hostage crisis).  This is pure global politics at its worst.

Answer 4

That country is way too big....It need to get split up in smaller individual countries!!............ just my opinion.

Answer 5

Maybe he is our Anti-Christ? ....I thought it was Bush

Answer 6

I wouldnt doubt it! People say its the United States which will bring World War 3, but look at how Russia, and not to mention all of europe is acting!

Answer 7

Putin is looking for land, power and anything he can get his hands on. My my Grandfather always said never trust a Russian.