The Reds are at it again. Russian Troops invade Georgia.

Katyusha · Post by **Katyusha** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:27 am

Clicky Clicky

Someone's apparently showing their Army is still an Army after all these years.

LeoXiao · Post by **LeoXiao** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:04 pm

2000 people died in just two days. That's pretty frightening.

terran empire · Post by **terran empire** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:32 pm

“I sense something. A presence I've not felt since... "the Wall fell

just when you thought it was safe,

The Empire Strikes back!

humor Aside this does not bode well for other break away republics

Katyusha · Post by **Katyusha** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:12 am

Clicky Clicky

Seems like it's escalating.

Nazgul · Post by **Nazgul** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 4:46 pm

I've never trusted Poetin or his comrads. This just goes to show.

Katyusha · Post by **Katyusha** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:34 pm

Clicky

Well, they seem to have stopped for now... heh.

If nothing else, they've definitely uptaged China and the Olympics for Centre Stage

KiLlEr · Post by **KiLlEr** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:24 pm

They did this before in 1956, while the world was distracted they went on a tank-rampage.

Post by **Taurec** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:13 pm

Guess they wanted to peace keep the lines... spice/oil/gas must flow....

KiLlEr · Post by **KiLlEr** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:29 pm

More like:

1) Show the separatists what not Joining Russia means.
2) Destabilize Georgia, Where the only non-Russian-controlled (and largest) oil/gas pipeline into Europe is, in hopes to install a non-west allied party.

Russia wants control over all pipelines into Europe. Gee, I wonder why?

LeoXiao · Post by **LeoXiao** » Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:07 pm

It's funny how america can't do much about it.

cullenk · Post by **cullenk** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:10 am

Funny? Do you mean "funny" as in "ha ha", or "funny" as in strange? If the former, I imagine the Georgians are not seeing too much humor in the situation.

LeoXiao · Post by **LeoXiao** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 5:18 am

Actually, I was wrong. The US is giving them humanitarian aid. That's nice.

I think Georgia sort of brought this on themselves. They shouldn't have attacked South Ossetia. However, Russia shouldn't send any troops past the rebel territories. What Russia wants to do now is completely destroy Georgia's military capacity, and scare it into never being friendly with the West again.

cullenk · Post by **cullenk** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:36 pm

I suspect Putin and the boys have been planning this for a long time. The logistics of moving as many troops and as much hardware as they did makes the claim that this was some kind of reaction to recent events seem very fishy.

The similarities between the Russians excuses for attacking Georgia and the claims Hitler's Nazi regime used to justify invading Czechoslovakia sound like the same stuff.

Look out gang, here comes Cold War II!

Swell...

LeoXiao · Post by **LeoXiao** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:29 am

Yeah, it's in the same spirit. It can't get too far this time around, though, since Russia and Europe (and the US) are codependent in trade.

cullenk · Post by **cullenk** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:57 am

I hope you are right about that. My fear is that Putin figures trade issues will be no big deal after the Red Army subjugates the rest of Europe. Hitler almost pulled it off, and he didn't have nukes. The only country I can see not just outright caving to Russian demands is Poland, and they wouldn't hold up long. I think Germany, Belgium and France will fold up like broken lawn chairs. And the US is in not much better shape with our "Peace Dividend" military stretched thin fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our political "leaders" more worried about their poll numbers than the good of the country.

Again, I hope I am wrong. I am probably one of the older denizens of this board, and can remember as a second grader during the Cuban Missile Crisis having frank discussions with the other kids on the playground as to whether or not we would get nuked before Halloween that year.

I guess in reality we have lived in a world where instant annihilation was a distinct possibility since about 1950. What everyone thought was the end of the Cold War was just an all too brief hiatus. The threat never really went away, and this is a very loud and dramatic reminder of that fact.