Is it true that Russia swiftly checkmated Bush’s clumsy attempt to expand US influence into the Caucasus?

Question

"The Bush administration appears to have pulled off its latest military fiasco in the Caucasus. What was supposed to have been a swift & painless takeover of rebellious South Ossetia by America’s favorite new ally, Georgia, has turned into a disaster that left Georgia battered, Russia enraged, and NATO badly demoralized. Not bad for two days work!"

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis120.html

Neocons are sooooo smart!;-p

Answer 1

Nope, not true at all. Typical anti-American liberal spin.

Answer 2

Russia has nothing to do with this.  Georgia attacked Ossetia with armed forces and started killing civilians and peacekeepers. Russia had to defend Ossetians civilians. Any country would do the same Russia did.

Georgia cannot live with its neigbor peacfully that is the problem.

If 99% of people in the republic want to get separated from Georgia they should be allowed to do so. Especially after Georgians started to kill civilians second time. The first time it happened in 1992. Back then Boris Yeltsin sent troops to South Ossetia to calm down Georgians the same way Putin has done now.

This conflict is 16 years old. Nothing new exept the fact that Georgia is the US ally now.

Answer 3

I'd say Russia's move was a huge success for Russia. It certainly scared the Europeans who depend highly on Russia for fuel. (It told them they can control all fuel flowing from Azerjaiban to Europe via pipeline through Georgia)

Answer 4

The Bush administration had nothing to do with this.  Russia invaded Georgia, how can you possibly spin this to make it Bush's fault?

Answer 5

Oh no, mon frere, this is only act I scene 1 of the American neocon's effort to make the American people believe that ,"Its baaaaack", the cold war has resurfaced.  There is the problem of the Ukraine ( and Russian agents have done some really dirty deeds there) and its application for membership in NATO. It is also making noises like it will not renew the lease in Sebastapol in 20019 for the Russian Black Sea Fleet which is like putting a red flag in the face of a p-ssed off bull. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will back down and fast so no problem there and they aren't in the Caucasus area anyway.

Stay tuned this should get interesting especially as Putin's intelligence

is off scale and he is reptilian in nature.

Answer 6

The answers so far are so pathetic. Of course the US had something to do with it and it heavily backfired on the US.  

Answer 7

Who writes this stuff, Bush warned Georgia not to move against

the instigators,

NATO is proudund as it will ever be, the gutting of the military

by the Clintons has come home .roost,

(The Treason committed by the likes of Pelosi and Reid have emboldened our foes,)

That is how a surplus was concocted,  

Answer 8

Yes, and I hope it will  foreclose once and for all the danger of war with Russia. They put the fear of God in him. However, if McCain were elected, though not likely we don't know what he would do.

Answer 9

Ignorance abounds on YA.

Bush tried to get Georgia to leave South Ossetia alone for the nonce.

Georgia's hot headed president would not listen to us.

Blame Bush for what he actually does not for all the world's problems.

Of course we accept that there is no way you will give him credit for his accomplishments.

Answer 10

Clumsy is right.  A few short weeks before Georgia started operations in South Ossetia, Condi Rice was there promising that the matter of Georgia joining NATO was now a question of when, not if.

As the military action got under way she had to go back and caution them that they were not yet members - to no avail.

Then when things went from bad to worse - Bush promised Poland US military protection to sign the agreement to put a missile site in Poland.  

I just can't decide if the was trying to create a new war to help McCain  or if he actually thought he could leave a legacy of surrounding Russia with NATO countries and missile sites?

Answer 11

Not at all.

In fact it was Russia's invasion of Georgia that prompted Poland to ask us to place a US base in their country.

And I expect that Georgia will work for even closer relations with the West after this.