I said it at “The Rott”, I’ll say it here. Oh. Fuck.
South Ossetia is a Georgian republic that voted twice to secede from Georgia. They got a little too uppity for the Georgians so Saakashvili decided to squash them while the world is distracted by the Olympics. The problem is, they managed to kill some Russian nationals in the process so now they’re getting a severe spanking from daddy bear. The US has been arming Georgia for a while now (an oil pipeline built by American oil companies runs through Georgia) so now our gov’t is sticking its nose where we don’t belong.
Tell me Stack...do you know what a Matricula Consular is? Well, that’s where I agree with Drew, the Russians have been fomenting this for 14 years or more by issuing Russian passports to South Ossetians who are too frakkin’ lazy to move to NORTH Ossetia, which belonged to Russia anyway!
This is Этническая Чистка, pure and simple, and the Russians are damn good at it. Сволочи!
Macker,
I didn’t say the Russians are blameless.
Georgia has been targeting civilians in Ossetia since the first vote to secede. Georgia started this fight with the help and encouragement of the US gov’t.
Am I supposed to be impressed by the Russian words and Cyrillic typeface? dick
Frak You.
Russia just feels left out of the whole war thing these days and after watching US do it now for a bunch of years in Afgan and Iraq territory, well.....they were getting itchy anyway!!!
They’re just jealous because we’re kicking Afghan ass, while they got their asses kicked. The answer is simple. Russia can have Ossetia, just pull out of Geaorgis. Lines are on the map, that’s yours, this is ours. Now get the hell out before NATO comes to the rescue, and we get into a killing contest. Betcha we’re pretty damn good at it.
GEORGIA. Duh. I was typing and hitting send entirely too fast.