Why on earth is Georgia getting Western support?

Question

Why on earth is Georgia getting Western support?

Answer 1

Because they were about to become a NATO member.

Georgia is far from blameless in all this but it is sad to see how people just blindly believe the Russian propaganda.

Answer 2

http://russiangeorgianwar.blogspot.com/

http://en.qartu.com/

http://stop-bombing.blogspot.com/

http://occupation.tspteam.com/

http://geoconflicts.wordpress.com/

http://realgeorgia.wordpress.com/

Answer 3

Sending humanitarian aids is better than sending troops. Those aids are sufficient to indicate that alliance will defense Georgia and asked russian to back off.

Answer 4

Few reasons:

- The Caspian sea is an oil backup supplier and one of the most important oil pipelines runs through Georgia, it is important because it helps reducing western reliance on Middle Eastern oil without entering russian or Iranian territories.

- Georgia has  a very strategic location: right next to Russia and  very very close to Iran

- Western presence in Georgia is also an effort to help isolating Iran from its allies Russia and China.

Answer 5

Oil basically they have a major pipeline running through it. This shows just what our Governments are made of, when they turn a blind eye to Genocide by the Georgian military in favour of an oil pipeline :(

Answer 6

we don't like the russian bear.