World View

Russia is back to its game of keeping the peace by keeping the pieces. I'm sure that the next step will be for both of these regions parliaments to ask to become part of the Russian federation much like the Baltic states through puppet parliaments asked to become part of the Soviet Union after the Ribbentrop Molotov pact of 1939. This is also their pay back for Kosovo.

the usa government should take a closer looks at its ties with countries that dont offer immediate support on an issue as clear and simple as this.

nato was formed for just such a reason and to let russia ,or any nation bully their way into another sovereign nation is just unthinkable and plays back to the warsaw pact days . nato needs to stand together and tell russia ,or china or whoever ,in no uncertain terms , that such actions are not acceptable ,and will NOT BE TOLERATED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES AND WILL BE MET WITH THE SAME APPROPRIATE FORCE AS IS NEEDED TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO.

the pussyfoot tepid french/german/euro response will only lend credence the the russians' belief that they are plenty mighty enough nowadays to do whatever they want with impunity . hitlers germany was a very similar situation ; russia should be very closely watched and if military action is the only thing they will respond to then that is what nato should do , undivided and with no waste of time or footdragging.

it is a very dangerous precedent to set with a country that has a very large nuclear arsenal that is also run by and large by thugs ,mobsters and power grabbing industrialists ,to let them ruthlessly invade and loot a neighboring nation with no real punishment , all the while ignoring well established international policies and precedents ,as well as pleas from its neighbors to stop . it is obvious that russia will annex (on its own terms) both these regions very soon ,no matter what the rest of the world (or nato ) says. now i wonder, what/who will be next?

it was also very sad and disappointing to hear the russian political rhetoric and the overwhelming support for such nonsensical and illogical actions . the russian political system supports no form of true democracy,nver has and never will. they are too busy mindwashing their constituents into a nonsensical nationalistic fervor with state controlled rubbish media the same way it was in the warsaw pact days(and the same way it was in hitlers pre ww2 germany.)

if there is truly a cogent analogy to hitler and those times ,it is much more appropriate to russias actions both preceding and during the event than anything georgia or the usa did or could have done.

the official russian government program of passing out of border documents / russian government passports to large numbers of breakaway supporters is totally illegal under international law and must be stopped immediately.

this is the same kind of land grabbing that has gone on in the middle east for way too long and has to be stopped immediately, in israel/palestine as well as the rest of the world.

the tacit and patent support by the usa for israels' illegal occupation of palestine , as well as the illegal breakaway province of kosovo , is a slap in the fact of the russians and their regional status when the international community attempts to reign them in in such a tightly woven and very similar border dispute.

also ,according to recent reports, russia is now attempting the same strategy in the ukraine (passing out passports) and they will eventually use the same reasoning they invaded georgia with to invade whoever they choose.

the sad truth is this; the only way to deal with these russian thugs is with undivided international force. quit wasting time nato ,lay down the law ,enforce it strictly (and fairly).

russia does not rule georgia and has absolutely no business there . georgia should have been in nato long ago but nato was scared of the russian response to such an action and put it off .

russia saw a sweaty and fearful nato blink long and hard ...now look and see what is happening.

Russia is playing our game. How fitting. What goes around comes around. It just made me cringe hearing Rice scold the Russians about invading a sovereign nation. Gee, where did Putin get that idea?

bah, you spew out a bunch of blah. People in Abkhazia want indepedence, and people in South Ossetia just got shelled by Georgia. Russia is getting involved because of their interests, and as a counter to American imperialism. Ron Paul!