Thank you.

Do not rejoice in his defeat you men
For although mankind stood up and killed the beast of war
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

Bertolt Brecht

…Once again?

Actually, Krym (Crimea) was Tartar territory til the Russian empire appropriated it prior to the USSR.

Ukraine, Georgia etc like to portray themselves as victims of Russian USSR, but many USSR leaders were not Russian.

All of what Russia considers its «near abroad» has been victimized by Russia at various times during the last seven centuries. Simply because Russian leaders were not Russian does not mean that these nations and peoples were not victims of Russian imperialism and tyrany. Hitler was not ethnically German. Does this mean that the Poles, Czecks, Ukrainians, Jews, etc. were not victimized by the Germans? No, it does not. Moreover, a lot of what is going on is a direct result of Russian policies (such as Russification in the Caucasus and in its western neighbors: Ukraine, Moldova, etc.).

morally and legally correct in Balkans and Caucasus

According to what authority (on the legal side)? Re: morally correct — on what grounds? What has the Russian state done in history that doesn’t serve it’s own interests first and foremost?

Bottom line: Russia and Russians see NATO and US and West as a threat

Russia sees most everything as a threat, I’m sorry to say. Sometimes because there are threats and sometimes because it knows little else than confrontation.

None of my comments are meant to justify the war or Sakashvili’s actions; only to call out the absurdity of posing Russia as the victim in these situations.

They should be careful what they wish for.

Sorry for my bad english, i use a translation Prog.

Czech president Klaus made the same point about the invocation of Sudetenland & Prague Spring as some sort of parallels to Russia-South Ossetia-Georgia.

«One European leader talks sense about Georgian thugs»:

http://brianakira.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/one-european-leader-talks-sense-about-georgian-thugs/

«Klaus went on to say that to compare Mikheil Saakashvili to Alexander Dubček would be an insult to Dubček, and that the much-cited example of the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia to the Russian defense of South Ossetia is specious and misleading since Czechoslovaks did not slaughter their fellow citizens.»

I believe that Saakashvili is literally demented, but his insane raving about Czech ‘39, Hungary ‘56, Czech ‘68, and Solidarnosc seems to have been effective with both the left and right across Europe and the US.

I am a Hungarian, and far to be sympatethic to any ideology other than humanity. I think it is better to have a strong country lead by a half dictator who has the national interest in his focus than being the total slave of the froreign liberal powers in your own country. Putin is not democrat but he does not let his nation to be colonized and brain washed by the liberals as it happens in my country. Let’s not bring paralael between 1956 Hungary and Georgia. To do this is just simple ignorance to dug deeper into the situation but shooting opinion from the hip.

Thank you for writing in a civilized language.

If you had written in =|Kx’au||’ein, Blang or Khumi Awa, I would have had more trouble figuring out tht you are calling me a Nazi mass murderer.

As much as I should be offended, I am even more cognizant of your unfortunate dementia, and I sympathize with anyone who has obviously never had an orgasm.

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