The United States is forever looking for additional allies to send troops as part of its escalations into Afghanistan, and with the traditional NATO allies balking amid popular unrest the Pentagon seems to have reached a conclusion: if we can’t find allied militaries we’ll create them.
Enter the Republic of Georgia, the nation that eagerly took part in the US occupation of Iraq. They had to abandon that war in August 2008 to fight a brief war with Russia. While that war does not appear to have exhausted the Georgian government’s willingness to fight, it did destroy their military nearly in its entirety.
This is nothing the Pentagon believes it cannot solve with increased military aid however, and they have informed Congres that they intend to build the military capabilities of Georgia and several other minor powers in eastern Europe with an eye toward conducting “operations alongside US forces in Afghanistan.”
Yet nothing comes without a cost, and while the financial cost will be borne by the US taxpayers, the artificial increases in the sizes of these militaries could have serious ramifications on those nations and the surrounding area. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Georgia, where the last US-built military attempted to seize South Ossetia militarily, sparking the aforementioned war with Russia. Georgian President Saakashvili remains keen to reclaim South Ossetia and Abkhazia by any means possible, and even if in the near-term that military is going to be used in Afghanistan, its long-term ambitions remain with the now-independent enclaves to their north.
More Humvees for the Russians to seize, then.
Won't Congress have a say in this? Do they just need to be "informed"?
I started to feel sorry for the Georgians for allowing themselves to become whores for the US, but then I remembered that they produced Stalin. They'll get what they deserve.
Ironic, isn't it? They have their Uncle Joe and we have our Uncle "O". Maybe it's time to start a new protest chant… "O, no…we won't go!"
Or… "Brarack..bring them back.
You have no idea what you are talking about. The Russians created that monster.
Don't forget–Georgia ( Stalin) is actually the real homeland of the Chosen ones. Reported today–massive bomb exploded in Russian Subway–20 dead.– Could it been– 911 wrecking crew—-?
From Hubris to Ate To Nemesis–the pattern is so obvious that occurs spontaneously and one is pleased to see it also occurs to Hewitt:
http://www.circassianworld.com/pdf/Atlantic_Council.pdf+... target=”_blank”>http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:aXH…” target=”_blank”>http://www.circassianworld.com/pdf/Atlantic_Council.pdf+Hubris+Ate&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESh-puyX2fOu40YVwdNb0QwcjoTjo_NqiwESPAchjC63GNBwpjE6zQDx-UvPyh_cTg-IPFgLYnzvNz1MGloyn1PKjmwzFFOkgdWrL-A5YI4sB_lGZdMgnAM_iCXVD0cIh5QeGGjq&sig=AHIEtbStYFMO3P6C8kpPTYRbvqh-E72UNQ
As Israel rehabilitates Hitler, surely the US rehabilitates Stalin.
Breath taking in its idiocy. And to think you have the motor skills to actually type? So, what someone else is typing for you?
How amazing it is that Obama's worshippers continue to imagine him as a Man of Peace, while he wages war, or the equivalent to war, all around the world. Of course, if Russia was surrounding us with allies and bases and wargames, the way we are surrounding Russia, we'd call it the equivalent to war.
Also amazing, though, is Russia's determination to kowtow to Obama. The nuke treaty is nothing but a big huge sloppy kiss to Obama – it has gotten the Left back on his bandwagon. And Russia's Iran policy is nothing short of insane. I guess they are looking forward to the higher price of oil, but in the long run, the result will be a crushing decrease in value for Russia's gas, as the US takes control of Iran's gas. Why would Russia choose to design an Iran policy that cuts Russia's own throat? Weird, weird weird. No doubt there are some heinous combinations of secret threats and bribes going on.
Russia has not changed in hundreds of years. Russia (and eventually as the USSR) surrounded itself with slaves states to A. Supply their own military industry while stripping the slave states; B. Build a buffer for the vast range of enemies real and imagined rather like exploding armour on a tank. Some people have forgotten they were occupied for centuries by Mongols and their progeny and have only 'recently' subdued the pagan tribes. They have been brutalising the Caucuses tribes for a long time and still pride themselves on their "Varangian" ancestors". People who think that 1912 is ancient history have no idea what to think of the Russians or the rest of the world for that matter.
Your article demonstrates unspeakable ignorance about the Russian history of repressing and fragmenting this entire region. As regards comments about Stalin, yeah, he was born in Georgia, but only in a country and system such as that of Communist Russia could he ever have achieved his true evil potential.
Well, Bob, maybe the the ignorance is not unspeakable but it is profoundly devoid of any understanding of that part of the world. What that writer knows about the history of Russia could be printed with a number 12 pencil on the back of a postage stamp.
Didnt NATO commander general Wesley Clark issue orders to shoot the Russians in Kosovo . Russia had to find friends somewhere , So they found Iran . I dont think Russia can be expected to betray their friends so easily .. only the United States does this .
Russia has no friends. Ergo, none to betray.