What is your opinion on the fighting between Georgia and russia?

Question

what do u think and do u think this could possibly pull the world into another war?

Answer 1

It is following with the path that Putin has taken the Russian people down.  It's not a good path at all.  Where is NATO.  

Answer 2

Well I think they should call a ceasefire, as could it bring a another war? Probably not since look what happened during the fighting of Israel and Lebanon in 2006, did anything MAJOR happen? No not really.

But I highly disagree with Russia still fighting Georgia when they have pulled out of South Ossetia.

Answer 3

This is serious.  I've posted a descriptive answer on half a dozen questions just like this in the last 30 minutes, so I'll just say this is serious.  Russia is lying and has gone on a killing spree.  If it quiets down this time, you can be sure this conflict will come back up in the future.

Katya is yet another Russian propagandist:

***Katya K

Member since: August 11, 2008

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And another:

***Alex A

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Answer 4

Look, I don't care who sarted what anymore, i don't care! Why? because that's not the point anymore! Georgia is out of South Osettia, yet Russia continues to bomb and kill innocent civilans throughout Georgia! Russia rejects a ceasefire put forward by European diplomats and ignors pleas from the international community. Russia continues to kill and bomb! Therefore Russia is in the WRONG!

Answer 5

Russia pisses me off because they think they can get away with anything.  I hope the US, NATO, EU, or UN puts a stop to this and forces the Russians to pull out of Georgia, including South Ossetia.

Answer 6

I think it is shitee Russia fired on civilians.

Answer 7

well it is an aggressive act that must be dealt with accordingly, Georgia is in no way a match for Russia. We will do the apropiate thing, just with the president out of the country and the olympics its hard to do. No president will make that kind of action out of the country and without the advice of the joint cheifs of staff on the apropiate action . Get ready you might just go...  

Answer 8

I think Russia will over run Georgia and either install a new government or just make Georgia part of a new Russian empire.

I think the West will do nothing but write protest letters and watch it happen.  European countries do not want to fight in a full blown war, unless it is for their own self defense.  The US and UK are the only countries that could come to Georgia's aid and they are both busy and will not fight a war with Russia.

Answer 9

I'm very concerned.  It may be that Russia was encouraging the separatists so that Georgia would have to respond, giving Russia the excuse to attack.

This is a very tricky situation - Putin is a dictator, and bent on expanding Russia's influence.  Will there be a world war?  I doubt it.  although things will be bad enough even without one.

Answer 10

I see that only few ppl here know whats really happening in Georgia and Ossetia. My brother is in there with the troops and hes calling me sometimes. In the next few days, our army will take over Tbilisi and the war will be over. If Saakashvili doesnt want a cease-fre, so be it. Im proud of my country, we're doing the right thing.

Answer 11

Just take a look the news channel that show Osetia ( not only Georgia )

( How to see Russian news channel ):

http://www.pbase.com/image/101525509/ori...

Answer 12

Russians once again occupy a country where they have no place to be.

Being from former Czechoslovakia, let me tell you... don't believe a word Russians are saying about 'protecting' or 'peacekeeping'... that's just laughable or rather offensive... no one should fall for it...

In 1968, Russians came over to 'liberate' us and stayed here for 40 years until the Soviet Union was dissolved...

Answer 13

Its just another example of Russia's attitude to its former USSR member states, they should be subservient to Russia.

It could but I don't really think so . Europe has lost any will to fight for anything any more except if it was a direct threat.  

Answer 14

because this didn't just pop up out of the blue like one day they were all happy neighbors and then one day, bang, somebody started bombing the c**p out of villages. russia used to be the soviet union that ruled with an iron fist. kind of like if the united states killed state representatives for their views instead of allowing their voices to be heard. this faction of russia, called hardliners, still exists and is trying to make its presence known again. there has been a rattling of sabers coming out of russia lately. georgia is now a sovereign and civilized state with it's own government that poses no threat to russia other than to be a sovereign state. russia has shown signs that it wants to be the ruler of these states again. it's not quashing a rebellion it's trying to refortify it's hard line values and is behaving opportunistically in order to "own" that territory for it's own world conquest, which it formerly resigned as unsupportable. unlike the us/iraq situation, russia literally has designs to rule these people, the us supports iraq as a nation unto itself...the ultimate difference would be that the us doesn't do things like start trying to take mexico as it's own to exploit their resources and people. the reason we don't do this is besides being just wrong, we could not rule their people (don't get me wrong here, just hypothetical) with our predisposition toward the human spirit itself. we could not rule there because it would be a humanitarian nightmare. we would not be able to support these new states in a humane way. russia on the other hand, as far as the old ways, would have little or no concern for such issues. anybody that thinks russia is behaving compassionately toward anybody and has no other goal but to be compassionate has completely written off what we know about it's history and the fact that this type of action is absolutely predictable and only clarifies that the iron curtain will fall again trapping millions if left unchecked.

i would like to underline my point with this...being a part of the us army during the cold war, and having trained and prepared with many other americans and allies to fight the warsaw pact, it was common knowledge that on the front lines that our first opponents would not be russians themselves but more likely would be romanians who would be forced ,literally, to spearhead russian assaults. they were considered lesser human beings in the soviet union and would be used in suicide fashion to deplete our fighting capability, we knew that if and when the fighting began that we would have no other choice than to wipe out these poor, woefully underequipped, souls who would either move forward against us or be killed from behind as soviet doctrine was to force them forward by walking artillery up behind them.

...and by the way, this preparedness has never waned and the us military is fully prepared, now, as it was then, to go toe to toe

Answer 15

Simple truth about Georgia and Osetia

What is happening now?

Osetia is a small ethnicity between Russia and Georgia. We have only 100 thousands of people and 2 thousands of them already died because of ETHNIC CLEANSING by Georgians.

What it is happening now is simple GENOCID of Osetians by Georgians.

Who started the war?

Georgia has started the war and genocide by coming to the capitall of Osetia with tanks and cannons. They started to bomb civilians in the small city. And they killed 2000 of them in 3 days!!! All dying people you see in the newspapers – are Osetian defenceless civilians dying from massive shelling. Moreover Gergians also killed many OSCE peacekeepers who stayed on the border and tried to protect Osetia.

Why they do all that?

Osetia has beautiful lands near the coast of the Black Sea. From ancient times Georgia wanted to take those lands. They never ruled Osetia. Georgians already tried to perform mass killings in the past. All we could do to protect ourselves and our lands is to ask our another neighbour – Russia to stop Georgians.

How they could do that?

Why American newspapers and TV doesn’t tell the truth? Why 2 weeks before this attack American soldiers and instructors came to Georgia and made training to Georgian army (it even was shown by American TV). It is simple – America planned and then started dirty campaign against Russia. Dirty because they do it by Georgian hands and because the price for this is OUR LIFES. If nobody stops Georgians – Osetians will physically disappear as ethnicity.

Just look at the numbers with more attention – 2000 Osetians killed against 6 Georgians.

And it happened in Osetia – not in Georgia.

Why Georgian president lies?

He always lies. He lies to us, to his American supporters, to international community. Just remember his latest interview when he sits under the European Union flag, so everybody thinks that Georgia is the part of EU. Georgia was NEVER part of European Union.

What we can do now?

We can eat what official newspapers and TV gives us. But remember when they told us that Iraq had chemical weapon. They bombed Iraq and thousands of Americans were killed to let oil companies earn more on Iraq’s oil. But, who talks about chemical weapon now? The fat is in the fire now.

It is simple like that:

If we don’t stop Georgians now they will take Osetia’s land and kill most of Osetians.