Please inform me of the situation in South Ossetia, I am totally ignorant of it.

Question

Please inform me of the situation in South Ossetia, I am totally ignorant of it.

Answer 1

I do not know how much you are informed in occasion of this situation but I know that from various sources say lies to you and try to incite you against Russia. Yesterday Georgia has begun attack of South Ossetia though itself earlier spoke about reconciliation. In current of yesterday Georgia has subjected all South Ossetia to continuous bombardments from howitzers, rocket complexes "Hailstones", etc. then in the city of Tshenvali which is capital of South Ossetia the Georgian tanks and in already today's morning the Georgian bombers dot blows on cities of South Ossetia have entered striked. The Russian peacemakers have received impact in a back hundred parties of Georgia, on the Russian arrangements where there are peacemakers fire from artillery and tanks has been opened. There is a lot of lost among the peace population and Russian a soldier. Georgia in the impudent image wages war, and not only on fields of battles but in mass media. The Georgian president tries to misinform in every possible way the world having told that Russia the aggressor which has attacked Georgia but it was not and will not occur. Today also the Georgian president has declared the general demobilization by means of which has collected militarians in a reserve (students, etc.) Also has sent them on front and to which most part this war is not necessary. The Georgian militarians having grasped some villages of South Ossetia finished wounded men of Russian the soldier and which most part Russian also the Georgian militarians in a pointed manner showed peace inhabitants to reporters as they shoot on the Russian positions with peacemakers and those do not answer as if they will answer with counter fire that greater war will begin. It is a genocide in the present kind and Russia within day tried to reach all world while all proceeded it and suffered but today the Russian tanks and were put forward to South Ossetia to stop bloodshed and to stop this war and the Russian planes did not bomb Georgia as the Georgian president speaks, it is a deceit by means of which Georgia tries to expose Russia guilty and to set all world against Russia.

If you will have questions and I as far as possible shall answer them.

Answer 2

Don't listen to the american lies here in this community .

US puppy Georgia provokes war with Russia,The Georgians tried to take advantage of the Olympics as a distraction to send in their troops to take control of a disputed region, that's quite a jerk move.

Answer 3

S. Ossetia used to be part of Georgia just as Chechnya was part of Russia.  S. Ossetia broke away from Georgia just as Chechnya broke off from Russia.  Russia settled the Chechen situation by waging war on Chechnya.  When Georgia tried to settle the S. Ossetian situation the same way the Russians decided to back the Ossetians and fight Georgia.  

Russians are nostalgic for the land and resources they controlled when they were the Soviet Union.  

Timer, the Russians did the same d**n thing in Chechnya.  Nation of hypocrites.

Answer 4

There's a reason the Caucasus region of southern Europe/western Asia is known as a powderkeg.

Hostilities between ethnic groups go back centuries, but most importantly, Georgia and the regions around it have been under Russian control off an on for centuries,, and Russia still feels as though it has some claim to the territories, particularly due to ethnic ties with some of the citizens of these regions.

Georgia was an autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1922 when it joined the other SSRs to form the USSR. The Russian SSR held de facto control (note that Russian was the official language, despite the diversity of the constituent SSRs). When Georgia declared independence in 1992, Russia was slow to let go but finally officially recognized Georgia as an independent Republic. However, it felt that certain "autonomous regions" were really Russian regions - such as South Ossetia, Chechnya, etc. This explains the militaristic endeavors by Russia in Checnya over the past decade.

As far as I can tell - because news is obscured by the fog of war - Georgia took unilateral action on separatists within South Ossetia. Georgia justifies this as it considers South Ossetia to be a component of the Republic of Georgia. For several years there have been Russian "peacekeepers" in South Ossetia who claim they were in danger. Note that these are troops maintained by unilateral action of the Russian military, and are not under any international mandate. Hours later, Russian tanks, APCs and aircraft proceeded into South Ossetia per the BBC (whom I trust as a news source).

There have been unconfirmed reports of Georgian artillery striking Russian armor, Russian planes bombing Georgian air bases, etc.

The most frightening rumor I've heard so far is that Russia has bombed Tblisi. Such an action would go beyond Russia's motive of defending Russian citizens in South Ossetia (Georgia considers them its own citizens) as it constitutes an attack on the Georgian public and as such is an act of war.

Not that attacking another nation's armed forces isn't, but there's a very thick and visible line between attacking military and civilian targets.

I don't mean to sound partial to the Georgians - I feel just as much for the safety of the Russians or South Ossetians, however they consider themselves to be. However, this is yet another in the pattern of Russian aggression in its perceived area of hegemony. The pictures are reminiscent of the Russian tank column entering Belgrade in the 1990s, as well as of the ongoing conflict in Chechnya.

There are several potential ramifications for the U.S. and the West in general.

Most obviously, there are oil prices. Georgia was poised to expand its oil production, something that has gone into the calculation of oil futures. With an expected crimp in supply, prices may rise, although not by much.

Moreover, Georgia is a staunch ally of the US, sending 3,000 of its 22,000 troops to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. This was a tremendous sacrifice, and before they pulled their soldiers out today to defend their homeland, theirs was the 3rd largest allied presence in Iraq.

Also, Georgia was a nascent democratic republic and had been making strives towards entering the EU and NATO. The Russian action, if it continues, may end with the subjugation of Georgian sovereignty. And there are enough American and European politicians who dislike such actions that we may see trade sanctions and embargoes beginning. It will constitute a definite shift over the next few years in terms of US-Russian relations.

Finally, there are nearly 5 million civilians in the region whose lives are threatened by military action, displacement and the disruption of food, housing and medicine. They deserve assistance as much as the people of Darfur.