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Russia Expands Bombing Blitz Against Georgia

AP | MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI | August 10, 2008 at 06:27 PM

TBILISI, Georgia —

Russia battled Georgian forces on land and sea, reports said late Sunday, despite
a Georgian cease-fire offer and its claim to be withdrawing from South Ossetia,
the separatist Georgian province battered by days of intense fighting.

Russia claimed to have sunk a Georgian boat that was trying to attack Russian
vessels in the Black Sea, and Georgian officials said Russia sent tanks from
South Ossetia into Georgia proper, heading toward a strategic city before being
turned back.

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I'm NOT buying the drival being spouted by the M$M, that B* is insisting that Russia retreat!!

I think he and Putin are in cahoots!! Why?? :nowarforoil:

Of a New World Order.

IMHO, This is not Bush and Putin working together. This is a very straightforward response to Bush/Chaney and NATO.

The Russian Bear is not rolling over and playing dead. Bush and the Neocons have awoken it, and it's ready to fight. Georga, backed by Bush and a future place in NATO went to take back a seperitist region while Russia was supposed to play dead from fear of NATO intervention. I think this was unexpected.

Russia will punish Georga then pull back. This is an object lesson and reminder to western europe of the Russian will.



Peace.

In the crimean war, russia intervened in neighboring territories under the auspices
of protecting peoples. They clearly chose the time to be highly inconvenient for the
opponents given the olympics and that any war would be over by the ending ceremony.

I don't know if NATO has anything to do with it really; Georgia is a widely divided
set of countries glued together... and like montenegro, or kosovo, some of them will
come to break up from these eastern yugoslavia-like states.

I agree that bush has uncapped this by creating an open precedent of military impunity
whenever it suits the interests of the leadership. But that's not nato, its a message
to all the CIS republics that Russia won't be taking shit, and that its uses of force
are more coherent with better exit strategies than the stupid american fuckups.