Russians Settle in Georgia, as Hardships Reported | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com

Posted By: Braes @ 08/17/2008 10:06:09

Comment: Vadim,
This war was started by people with a public relations plan, who knew how the western media operates, with an eye toward the Unites States elections occuring in a few weeks. Putin was caught off-guard and stormed out of the Olympics in a complete rage. You were set up to look bad, and set up to be a boogieman for their continuing misadventures.
Personally, I see this as a complete tragedy in slow motion that is not going to stop. Abkhazia and S Ossetia are gone from Georgia now. Georgia lost any rights when they killed all the civilians in a filthy sneak attack on apartment blocks with rocket attacks. McCain and Bush may think this is a good thing, I think it is sick and evil. Very evil.
Russia also made a huge mistake in not publishing the attack on Sochi the night of the war. There are no pictures in the western media of the victims on the beach. Americans do not know these things. It would have changed opinions quickly.
What all of these mistakes really mean is that Russia wasn''t ready for this war. The guy with the propaganda machine usually started the fight. In this war, CNN went in to out-Fox Fox. If they could get two Georgian mouthpieces to say the same thing, they ran with it. If a Russian Airplane popped a sonic boom near the Airport, two Georgians would declare an airstrike near the President, etc.
John McCain''s #1 policy guy was a merchant of death in the Iraq war, and has a mercenary attitude toward foreign policy. Lavrov called this an American Project. He should fully explain that. Against such a pathological batch of liars, you''d better get your A game on fast. You had better get the attack on Russian soil solved, and make a broad case against this adventurism.
The American people are honest and fair, and loathe liars and deceit. Yours is the high moral ground if you would just act better than us.