Community | August 13, 2008 | 8 comments

Who's to blame for the Russian Georgian conflict?

source: http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2042

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Pepe Escobar: Georgia is a strategic client state of the US with close ties to the Bush administration.

Georgian troops launched an aerial bombardment and ground attack on its separatist province of South Ossetia on Thursday. South Ossetians want to join up with their ethnic brethren in North Ossetia, an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation. Seeing this as an act of aggression Russia launched bombing raids against Georgia, vowing to defend its citizens. More than half of South Ossetia's citizens are said to have taken up Moscow's offer of a Russian passport. Pepe Escobar believes that "the hypocrisy of the international community knows no bounds for if the West forced the issue of Kosovar independence then the independence of South Ossetia should also be on the cards."
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