What are russia's reasons for fighting georgia?

Question

What are russia's reasons for fighting georgia?

Answer 1

to protect Russian citizens in S.Ossetia. Would you like to be protected being in a foreign country? Especially if it's government doesn't care about human as long as they get the territorial conflict taken care off? It's all to become a part of NATO asap. No one knows what will be a result of an elections in America. So Saakashvili doesn't want to lose his chance to get in NATO before America stopped sending him money & supporting him. ИМХО

Answer 2

The Georgians attacked the South Ossetians, Russia is stepping in to help.

Answer 3

On 20th September 1990  South Ossetia declared its independence from Georgia. The first South Ossetia supreme power election was in December 9 1990. But Georgia acknowledged the election to be illegitimate and decreed to abolish sovereignty of the new unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia, and on the next day the Georgian government implemented the state of emergency on the territory of South Ossetia. On 6th January 1991 Georgia put its army on the territory of South Ossetia, activated the operations and started the blockade of the autonomy of South Ossetia. As result more than 10 thousand people left South Ossetia for North Ossetia and about 30 thousand Ossetians left Georgia. During the armed conflicts 1991-1992 about 300 Osetians disappeared without a trace, more than 40 thousand got status of refugee, and more than 100 Ossetian rural area were destroyed by Georgian army.

The armed conflicts were stopped when Boris Yeltsin and Eduard Shevardnadze signed the Dagomys agreements.

South Ossetia became an independent republic in January 1992 de facto, but Georgia could not let it go.

In 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili has became the president of Georgia, and the main subject-target of his presidential campaign has been South Ossetia. He has violated the Dagomys agreements.

Georgia vs. South Ossetia: roots of a 100-year conflict

http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/286...

On 8th August 2008 Georgia declared the war against South Ossetia.

Russia points to media bias in coverage of S.Ossetia conflict

CNN use footage of Tskhinvali ruins to cover Georgian report

American citizen telling the truth about Georgian invade in South Osetia  http://russianwomenshome.com/simplemachi...

Answer 4

ossetia (and the other region abkhazia) broke away from georgia in the early 90th soon after the collapse of the soviet union. the reason for their secession was persecution of ethnical minorities in georgia. the problem actually existed even when georgia was a part of the soviet union though on a much smaller scale because nationalism was strongly condemned by the mainstream soviet ideology. the collapse of the soviet union was accompanied by a surge of nationalistic sentiments in several parts of the country including georgia where such sentiments were particularly strong. apparently because of not wishing to be the second grade people first ossetians and later abkhazians tried to secede. In both cases in response to their decisions georgia sent troops to their regions. There were 2 wars in both of which georgia lost for one reason because at that time its army was only being formed and was not any strong. in both cases russia served as a mediator helping the sides to sign a ceasefire. under the terms of both ceasefire agreements russian peacekeeping troops were sent to the respective regions. since then both breakaway regions have run their own affairs and did not want to integrate back in georgia, for one thing because the first attempt of geoorgians to reintegrate them was accompanied by attrocities committed by the georgian army. they were, however, never recognized by any country in the world including russia. russia however has been helping those people and put them on a fast track to its citizenship - because those people did not have any citizenship - they were soviet citizens but never citizens of georgia and that was creating problems for them. recently georgian government decided to reintegrate one of those regions by force once again. the georgian army fired at a lightly armed russian peacekeeping force and then moved on to wiping out villages and towns in ossetia using tanks heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers. many people (according to the russian claim around 1000) were killed on the first day of the georgian onslaught and 10s of thousands ran for safety to russia and became refugees. then the russian army moved in and now the georgians say they are the victim (b/c they lost the war i guess). in any case, after the 2nd massacre in less then 20 years committed by georgians against them ossetians are not particularly eager to reintegrate in georgia. i find it pretty natural. don't you think.

Answer 5

look at this

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/4871/...

Answer 6

Because they can get away with it.

It is laughable to suggest that the most amoral country in the world did it to protect anyone, to save anyone, or to see justice done.

This is a streetcorner mugging engineered by a thug who knows the cops won't lift a finger.

Answer 7

They used to run the place as the USSR, and they want it back.  It doesn't help anything that Georgia has the only major oil pipeline in central Asia that Russia doesn't control (yet), and Putin's billion dollar fortune is mostly tied up in oil.

Answer 8

pissed off... russians get like that....

Answer 9

Georgia broke off from Russia after Communism fell. They become their own nation but a section wanted to remain Russian. Georgia refused to allow it, causing conflicts. In recent years, there has been a ressurection of violence with the exception that Russian peacekeepers are being killed in that area.

They are retaliating for their people being killed by Georgians in the conflict area.

Answer 10

thay felt like it.