Wait wait wait wait wait wait, When did the soviets invade Georgia?

[Drftpretty]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080811/..._south_ossetia

I was checking my yahoo email and saw all these insane headlines on yahoo news. Its weird, all you see on the news is stupid **** about the Olympics when Russia is Invading another country!

Georgia in Europe, not in the south. If it was the one in the south I wouldnt care.

Excuse me if it came as a bit of a shock, my Grandma spends the summers at a family vineyard in Hungry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qwUpHUNDgY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85f7d...eature=related

[DC Hunny5]

there's actually an article on delawareonline & a friend of mine from high school was in georgia when the bombing began.

[ToTheIX's]

i am putin, feel my wrath

[ToTheIX's]

but on a serious note....thats how you invade a country and take care of business....take notes mr bush....take notes

[sherwood]

blame it on god damn cleanneon.

[The Captain]

Georgia should have never made the first move.

[ToTheIX's]

****ing with russia has bad news written all over it....they just pretended to have no money all that time......they gots da bombs

[Scapegoat]

omg i hope the wolverines are there!

[Zillon]

In Soviet Russia, bombs drop you!

[DoubleOughtCel]

Originally Posted by Scapegoat

omg i hope the wolverines are there!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Red dawn ftw!

Originally Posted by Zillon

In Soviet Russia, bombs drop you!

AHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHH x 2

[Drftpretty]

I read a quote from McCain that said when he looked in Puttins eyes all he could see was KGB. Thought that was funny.

[Got Insulin?]

Dude, **** with Russia if you want your home to become a parking lot. They are the origional "no-joke" motha****as.

[KingOfDelco]

If Russia and China finally get smart, and join forces.... we are done.

[93TalonEs-T]

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Originally Posted by Scapegoat

omg i hope the wolverines are there!

[frosti108]

i must say it feels good to have a war going on that the US is not in the middle of!

otherwise, anyone feel like posting up some cliffnotes on how this whole russia vs georgia thing started? honestly i dont think ive ever even heard of georgia

[93TalonEs-T]

Wait,Bush was already poking his nose in this one.He'll have another war started before he's out.

Originally Posted by frosti108

i must say it feels good to have a war going on that the US is not in the middle of!

otherwise, anyone feel like posting up some cliffnotes on how this whole russia vs georgia thing started? honestly i dont think ive ever even heard of georgia

[KingOfDelco]

Georgia is right near Chechnya and other volatile regions. It borders Turkey to the north and is smack between the Black sea and Caspian Sea.

Besides breaking away from Russia, Georgia has done other things that russia doesn't like. Namely, they are building a pipeline through the country that will enable them to transport oil from the producing countries in SE Asia to Europe. Currently, Russia has a STRANGLEHOLD on this market. They buy oil and sell it in Europe at a HUGE markup. They are pissed that Georgia is going to be cutting into their market and knocking down profits.

I'm not sure, but I think Georgia may have invaded that breakaway region in an attempt to secure the area to allow the pipeline to be built thru it. That region was basically ungoverned, and Georgia wanted to attempt to reign it back in, and then Russia was like, "oh no you don't"....

Also, Russia dislikes Georgia because that is where Stalin was from (i believe stalin, possilby lenin).

So there are many different factors at play here. Basically, that whole area has never been stable since WWII and especially since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

[arkadyzv]

Originally Posted by KingOfDelco

Georgia is right near Chechnya and other volatile regions. It borders Turkey to the north and is smack between the Black sea and Caspian Sea.

Besides breaking away from Russia, Georgia has done other things that russia doesn't like. Namely, they are building a pipeline through the country that will enable them to transport oil from the producing countries in SE Asia to Europe. Currently, Russia has a STRANGLEHOLD on this market. They buy oil and sell it in Europe at a HUGE markup. They are pissed that Georgia is going to be cutting into their market and knocking down profits.

I'm not sure, but I think Georgia may have invaded that breakaway region in an attempt to secure the area to allow the pipeline to be built thru it. That region was basically ungoverned, and Georgia wanted to attempt to reign it back in, and then Russia was like, "oh no you don't"....

Also, Russia dislikes Georgia because that is where Stalin was from (i believe stalin, possilby lenin).

So there are many different factors at play here. Basically, that whole area has never been stable since WWII and especially since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Also from what I understand, the breakaway province in question, South Ossetia, does not want to be part of Georgia, the Russians support them in this and had peacekeepers stationed there. Apparently the Russian peacekeepers were attacked, and Russia was also claiming genocide by Georgia in the breakaway province.

CNN

The conflict in Georgia began late last week when Tbilisi launched a military incursion into South Ossetia in an effort to rout separatis rebels.

Russia -- which supports the separatists, many of whom claim Russian citizenship -- responded the next day, sending tanks across the border into the province.

There doesent seem to be clear truth coming from either side, ie Russia saying they agreed to the cease-fire but still moving around in a non-breakaway Georgian province, and Georgia crying wolf saying that the Russians kept bombing one of their cities, while a CNN reporter riding with the Russians claiming that as being completely false since he was located right there. I do think both have alterior motives, Russia with thier whole peace but really pipeline and Georgia claiming we are being attacked by big bad Russia, help us western allies, we want to join you while they are trying to stir things up.

Right now it seems Russia is pulling out and leaving or so says CNN. And as long as the matter is dealt with politically then there will be no more lives lost. Regardless of who's truthful and right, Georgia starting anything with Russia will not end well, and they would get Soviet Union'd in a jiffy. Its like a Chihuahua(Georgia) picking a fight with a gopher (South Ossetia) in its yeard, while the gopher is homies with the pitbull(Russia) in the next yard.

[PUREKDM]

Originally Posted by arkadyzv

Its like a Chihuahua(Georgia) picking a fight with a gopher (South Ossetia) in its yeard, while the gopher is homies with the pitbull(Russia) in the next yard.

yea but the Chihuahua thinks its friends with the even bigger more badasser pitbull (america). i mean historically speaking, there has never been a war that america has ever lost...so it's a good idea in theory.

[The Captain]

Originally Posted by PUREKDM

i mean historically speaking, there has never been a war that america has ever lost...so it's a good idea in theory.

You forget that little blunder called Vietnam?