Why would little Georgia fight even further with such an aggressive Huge country?

Question

Maybe I don't get this whole thing

I know i'm gonna get yelled at and get smart-*** answers, but I don't even visit this forum often

Answer 1

Just asking the question makes you smarter than 90% of the people who are reporting on the skirmish.

The former Soviet Republics didn't earn their independence, per se, like many countries did. They were just kind of given it after the Cold War. They're all very young countries and they don't quite know what they can or can't do with their freedom. On top of that, the US has publicly made two things clear: they are unwavering allies of the Republic of Georgia, and they're the world's only Superpower and the international police state. So you can see why Georgia might have presumed that the US might have immediately come to their aid.

If it makes you feel any better, The United States declared war on Great Britain after only 30 years of being a sovereign nation. We got the snot beat out of us, too. So Georgia isn't the only country to have tried this.

Answer 2

Georgia attacked the citizens of South Ossetia, a region that had broken away in 1992 and has been trying to get recognized ever since as a free country. They are a distinct ethnic group whose relatives in North Ossetia live over the Russian border. Most of them carry Russian passports, and so fled across the Russian border to be safe from the Georgian bombing of their villages and hospitals. In addition, Georgia cut their water off. Both Israeli and US troops were providing training in war games in July.

So to answer your question simply - Georgia attacked South Ossetia and killed a lot of Russian people. They did not attack Russia per se but the South Ossetian people and some Russian peacekeepers that were there to keep this from happening.

There are 4 OIL pipelines running through Georgia if that will help give you a hint...

Answer 3

Simply because the memory of the suffrage under the Russian Iron Fist; isn't as faint as others would like to believe.