Is VP d**k Cheney right in criticizing Russia for its "assault" against Georgia? Maybe Russia felt that it ?

Question

it was in imminent fear of being attacked - like he said the US was with Iraq before we attacked it so they attacked Geogia first like what we did to Iraq!

Answer 1

Sorry you need to go back and find out what really happened. A part of Georgia was breaking off and trying to unify with Russia. Georgia was the first to attack and then russia stepped in. For some reason most people seem to have forgot that part.  

Answer 2

Russia was legally bound to go in as a peacekeeper to stop the ethnic cleansing of South Ossetia by Georgia.

d**k Cheney and the rest of the neocons are only interested in securing Georgia as a transshipment route for Caspian Sea oil.

Their rhetoric about Georgia comes across as hypocritical in light of their rhetoric about Iraq.

Answer 3

Looks like the word 'D i c k' is not allowed here.

I'm sure the Russian government feels justified in what it did, partly because of the US examples with Serbia and Kosovo, and with Iraq.  In both cases Russia's strenuous objections USA and NATO completely ignored.

Now Russia is ignoring objections from the West in the exactly the same way.

But neither USA nor NATO countries believe in equality between countries.  Otherwise USA wouldn't have any problem with Iran and North Korea acquiring nuclear weapons.  Because USA, UK, and France all have plenty of their own nuclear weapons.

International relations are all about getting the upper hand over others.  And for this reason, justifications don't really matter.  What really matters is raw military and economic power.  Which the West will probably try to use against Russia, whether Russia feels justified in its actions or not.

It probably will end up with another arms race where USA and NATO will arm Russia's enemies on its borders.  While Russia will probably respond by arming the enemies of the West in Syria and Iran.  And if things get really out of hand.  Then Russians might even consider helping the Al-Qaida.  After all, Al-Qaida was organized with the help of the americans to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan.  They've accepted help from the Americans.  And they'll probably accept help from the Russians too.  

Answer 4

Yes, he is right to criticize Russia. Except to the leftists in America who idolize Russia and Marxism.

Answer 5

Joe M is perfectly right. Georgia started this unholy mess and are now crying out for help from NATO and the US. Pity they did not think of the consequences before they started bombarding  South Ossetia.  

Answer 6

Iraq and South Ossetia are two dissimilar conflicts.  To comapre the two is laughable at best.  Democracy vs. Dictatorship.  Georgia didn't have a rap sheet of U.N. violations that was a decade long. Georgia's not guilty of mass genocide. Georgia's not being accused of harboring terrorists or pursuing WMD's. I can go on and on.  Even if you disapprove of the Iraq war please know that not everything can be used to further your liberal agenda.  And why are you so hung up on fairness?  The world is not a fair place my friend.  

And where is Russia legally bound to intervene as peacekeepers?  The only thing I can find is the Russians say 90% of South Ossetians hold Russian passports so they have a legal right to protect them, even though they live outside Russian jurisdiction.  You know that's the same type of arguement Hitler made for the annexation of the Sudetenland in 1939.  

There is also evidence of strong Russian involvement in the South Ossetain Separatist gov't (which recieved 2/3rds of its annual budget from Russia) and that Russia had pre-engineered the invasion to protect it's investment by it's state controlled gas giant GAZPROM in the region, in which it is constructing gas pipelines and other infrastructure.  Not to mention that Georgia is up for a NATO membership, which Russia srongly opposes.  

South Ossetia is soverign Georgian territory, it's like Texas wanting to separate from the U.S. and join Mexico, with Mexico saying it has the right to protect Texans from any retribution from the U.S., who obviously doesn't want to loose it's territory to the Mexicans, hypothetically speaking.

Answer 7

All three above me are right.

Georgia is a US backed financially and militarily country and this brain child of Cheney's back fired on his ***. They prodded this puppet fool of a president Sarkovski to attack South Ossetia Thursday night , Russia didn't respond unitl a good 24 hrs later when they had already killed over 2000 people and a number of Russian peacekeepers. Then they attacked with vengeance as would we have if Russia came into Mexico and started genocide. Russia was right in doing what they did and are being lied to and blamed by the US. Hold on to your pants because Russia knows we are a divided country with the illegal wars and stretched thin. They have just said yesterday that if the US gets involved and uses precision weapons that they do not have they will be forced to launch nulear warheads. They are not bluffing they as well as hundreds of others countries around the world are tired of the US playing cop with other countries. You can only bully so long , you can only run an empire so long. Guess what we are almost out of gas.

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