Fighting between Georgia and Russia

If there is another major war involving Europe it's gonna be here. Trouble is it will involve Russia too!!

.... having read some more i'm not sure Europe would go up against Russia over Georgia.

http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28640/video

This is a mess, Georgian forces fighting Ossetia fighters and bombing and killing Russian UN peace keepers in the process. Some say that the Russians have been using the Ossetian fighters to spy on Georgia!

Oh well I guess this proves that the US is not the only to make stupid mistakes. It makes you feel rather helpless. What can the world do? Send in the Red Cross to pick up the pieces are this is done...

How have i not heard of this till now?

Its been brewing for awhile:

http://current.com/items/88915194_missile_shootdown_pov

http://current.com/items/88936187_georgia_says_very_clo...

do you think this will turn out like the Israel-lebanon war, and end in about a month?

The new Russia scares me - Putin has set himself up as a dictatator, crushes all desent, has wiped out 20% of the Chechnya population, has taken over nearly all media channels and is loaded to the hilt with nukes.

Russia's continued interference with the former communist eastern European countries is worrying.

this is kinda old

The troops on both sides are about to observe a curfew for 3 hours to allow the injured civilians out. Why don't they just extend this and resolve it peacefully?

I've never heard of this before. I didn't even know there was turmoil brewing in the region. I feel so uniformed

War after war after war. Stop one....two start up in its place.

Putin Says `War Has Started' as Georgia Claims Russian Invasion

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid...

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Georgia is now drafting all its young men and throwing them into the conflict without any kind of military training whatsoever.

I always knew that one day Florida would go too far and force Georgia to take action.... but I do not understand why Russia and the UN should get involved in a state battle.







Obviously I am kidding...

BTW, it's written in Russian

It seems like the Russian's never really let Georgia out of their sights after their breakaway in 1990. But this whole conflict is just an example of how Russia is slipping out of control. Putin is unbalanced, to put it lightly, with an armory that is probably only second to the US.
I don't think Russia will yield to the ceasefire, but I don't think anyone else is going to help Georgia out on this one, especially not during the olympics, and with the US occupying the Middle East, the Georgian's may have to look towards other allies.
The American public won't agree to helping Georgia, when we're knee deep in war elsewhere.

Nothing like starting a war to offset the relative peace of the Olympics.

Putin takes home the gold in the d-bag olympics

I find it kind of sad, how few decide over the lives of so many...
Do we ever learn from our mistakes?

Well in the case of Russia, you have one man deciding the fate of a large populus of people he is the leader of, while Georgia seems to be a hodgepodge of resistance groups, coupled with their military, of which seems to be armed to the teeth with the pictures I've been seeing.

On a side note... QUESTION: Who funds Georgia during these military excursions, does the US pick up their tab, or does Georgia go it alone on this one?

Back to you Ion, no I don't think anyone really learns from their mistakes, well, speaking in regard to these conflicts that seem to spring up in Europe almost daily.

I don't think Russia learns anything from any conflict, not since WWII have they really done anything right, and Stalin wasn't exactly an angel there either.

I'm really hoping this isn't going to be accompanied by a war between us and Iran.

This is seriously bad in many ways. Not just because it's going to be an awful war, but because this is going to destabilize the whole world as well.

Ironic that it should happen right before the Olympics too, a celebration of international cooperation.

http://current.com/items/89183431_georgian_president_asks_america_to_defend_democracy

Excerpt from Yahoo News:

DZHAVA, Georgia - Russia sent columns of tanks and reportedly bombed Georgian air bases Friday after Georgia launched a major military offensive to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, threatening to ignite a broader conflict.

Hundreds of civilians were reported dead in the worst outbreak of hostilities since the province won defacto independence in a war against Georgia that ended in 1992. Witnesses said the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali was devastated.

"I saw bodies lying on the streets, around ruined buildings, in cars," said Lyudmila Ostayeva, 50, who had fled with her family to Dzhava, a village near the border with Russia. "It's impossible to count them now. There is hardly a single building left undamaged."

If Yahoo has credible sources, this conflict is quite bigger than the one that reported 15 civilian casualties.

My concern is, Georgia is an ally of the US. Second to Great Britain, Georgia has more troops aiding the "cause" in Iraq than any other allied nation of the US- 3000 troops. I fear that the US may become involved on behalf of the Georgians, which will cause tension between the Americans and the Russians. Russia is not a force to be reckoned with!

I'd like to see the international community respond to this the same way they responded to the US/Iraq war or the Israel/Lebanon war. Where's Chavez, or Ahmadinejad, sticking up for the small states of the world against the large bullies? Shouldn't they be rushing to defend Georgia against the big bad Russians? Oh wait, they buy arms from Russia and have a strategic relationship, so all their rhetoric doesn't apply in this situation. I love when it's blatantly obvious that the US government doesn't hold a monopoly on bs rhetoric and hypocrisy.

I agree, but I don't think WWIII will come out of this. I think Russia will yield to a cease-fire or risk all of those extremely useful UN sanctions... (Heavy sarcasm)

Who knows, as history tells us that part of the world is the most unpredictable environment.

It's events like these that make me realize that I'll never see peace in my lifetime.