Why are russia bombing georgia?? And whats the likely hood of the UK and the states getting involved??

Question

Why are russia bombing georgia?? And whats the likely hood of the UK and the states getting involved??

Answer 1

WOW.... you are all over this story.

Russia halted military operations this morning.

Answer 2

catch up, they are mercifully finished and going home. I'm glade we didn't get involved. We need to finish off the little village of brown people first.

Answer 3

Russia's hand has been forced for rather a long time. It would appear the USA is limiting Russian options more and more over the years. Now all the Russians do is minor skirmishes into former soviet areas to flex their muscles.

Answer 4

I don't know but I hope we don't get involved, we are spendng too much Taxpayers' money on wars which we shouldn't be involved in.  We have our own people to look after.

Answer 5

Those of you posting that the Russians are going home need to do a little more research.  Even after they declared and end to hostilities, they are still bombing.

Since research seems difficult for you to do, at least while you are trashing this kid for asking the question, I have done the research for you.  Just got here...if it isn't to much trouble: http://www.cnn.com/

Answer 6

Georgia own one of Russia states and basically Russia are taking that part back and punishing the rest of georgia so it wont happen again. Uk and Usa Don't particually want to get involved and they wont.

Answer 7

It's all about oil ( quel surprise) and there isnt a cat in h***s chance of the UK or US getting involved because they are hideously overstretched with the Iraq was, plus they have nothing to gain from it.

Answer 8

Asolutely none.

Answer 9

No UK will not get involved militarily as matter is being dealt with jointly within the EU on behalf of all EU states to try to settle dispute peacefully.The reason Russia is bombing hospitals and residential areas of Georgia outside South Ossetia and slaughtering hundreds of innocent civilians is because Putin is as big a tyrant as Stalin was and is desperate to try to stop Georgia joining NATO and joining the EU (like all the USSR's former satellite states have already done). That is why he set a trap for Georgia's elected President Saskashvili to fall into, to give Russia the alleged justification to bring in tanks and air power to try to recapture Georgia. Remember bringing in tanks and air power is exactly what the USSR did to try  to stop Hungary becoming independent, and a few years later to try to stop Czechoslovakia becoming independent, and were on the verge of doing a few years later to try to stop Poland becoming independent of Moscow's tyrrany during the Cold War. The excuses for those invasions werev worded similarly to the excuses now being expounded from Moscow. That is why having becoming independent and getting a democratically elected government Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland all joined NATO and all joined the EU and that is why now Georgia is independet it too wants to join NATO and become part of the EU to protect its population too. That is what this is all about.

Just to correct some confusion expressed by other answererers to this question in the UK, South Ossetia has been part of Georgia since 1922 and was never part of Russia.  Georgia was part of the USSR but was recognised by Moscow as a "constituent republic within the USSR" just as such countries as Ukraine. Latvia. Lithuania, Armenia, Estonia, Kazakhstan and the other countries (all now indeoendent) were. At no time when the USSR existed was there ever any suggestion from the Supreme Soviet in Moscow nor such leaders as Stalin, Kruschev. Yeltsin and the various others tyrants who ruled the USSR including Gorbachev that South Ossetia was a part of Russia (then called RSFR within the Soviet Union) and not a part of what was then called the Republic of Georgia as now it is still called after gettiing independence.

It is also untrue as somebody alleges that 2/3rds of the population of South Ossetia are "Russian". They are NOT Russian. What Ossetians are is a different Ethnic Group to Georgians. Much as the Welsh are a different race from the English and speak their own language as well as English. But Wales is still a part of the United Kingdom

BUT as a mischief making tactic, and as an excuse to try to keep Russian troops there after the collapse of the Soviet Union, President Putin ordered them to be issued with Russian passports. If Russia had also agreed that all Welsh speaking Welshman could also have a Russian passport, that would NOT make Wales part of Russia ruled from Moscow instead of being part of the UK governed from London? Neither would it make the Welsh Irish or Spanish or Norwegian or any other such nationality! They are Welshman and currently still British governed from London with their own assembly within the European Union, just like south Osettia is still part of Georgia as it has always been.

   

Answer 10

Georgia was declared independant in 1991, in 1992 a region of Georgia known as South Ossetia seceded away (south Ossetia is 2/3 Russian population), however has not been recognised internationally by anyone so therefore couldn't become its own country, despite that fact they have pretty much ruled themselves since then.

Georgian & Russian forces have been there to keep the peace.

It appears last week Georgian moved troops in to retake the region. Russia was more than ready (they have been training just over the border for many months & had a large force in the area)

8 Russian "peacekeepers" were killed, Moscow saw a green light and moved in.

Russia are just trying to claw back as much as they can before these countries join NATO and completely encircle Russia.

America would never get involved directly at the moment, because they have too much to lose. However Georgian membership of NATO is pending, once they are a member, America and the rest of NATO would have no choice but to go to war.

Answer 11

It is a border dispute that Georgia started.  There apparently was a bit of a slip across the border to attack a Russian town.

Answer 12

The U.K. should get involved we'll sit this one out. The U.K. can give a shout out if things get to out of hand!!!!

Answer 13

Russia is responding to the possibility of Georgia becoming a member of NATO, I think. Russia ruled Georgia for more than 200 years before it became independent in 1991. Russia's claim to all of it is stronger than the USA's claim to, say, Georgia(and Alabama and Virginia, etc.)

was in 1861. Given a free choice then those states would have, without doubt, voted  to  secede from the USA.  Luckily, President Abraham Lincoln did not give them that free choice. Lincoln was right.

Germany and France blocked Georgia's NATO membership. They thought it would anger Russia. The USA was pushing hard for it because of the eagerness that Georgia's politicians took to helping the USA in its adventure in Iraq. Also, the USA liked the way that Georgia seemed to be eager to let their country become a friendly outpost of American power within the boundaries of the former Soviet Union. American troops trained Georgia's army. Georgia's political schemers started this war with Russia most recently, and they are silly enough to think that the USA betrayed them because the USA hasn't rushed  in to save them.

If the USA supports Georgia in this, it would be acting like stupid Kaiser William II when he supported Austria-Hungary in the crisis of the summer of 1914. It is stupid to let a weaker country make your foreign policy decisions for you...unless you really want a war and don't much care if it is a winnable one.