War in the Caucasus

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  1. Anthony

    Anthony Member+

    Chelsea
    United States
    Aug 20, 1999
    Chicago
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    As an aside, Michael Totten was in Georgia and has published an essay on his website -- www.michaeltotten.com

    This guy has a habit of going to stress points around the world (he has written from Turkish and Iraqi Kurdistan, Bosnia, and lived in Lebanon for a while).
     
  2. Real Corona

    Real Corona Member+

    Jan 19, 2008
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    I'm not sure why, but I get the sense that he is over dramatizing some things. The road looks like a typical mountain road in the Caucuses, where you drive two miles an hour at best. I had a distant cousin takes us out in his jeep in the mountains near Abkhazya on a road worse than that. Then the hotel, which he makes sound horrible, looks like at typical low budget hotel you see everywhere.

    To give fair credit, his interviews were worthwhile to read.
     
  3. marek

    marek Member+

    Lechia Gdańsk
    Jun 27, 2000
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    "A car bomb in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali on Friday killed seven Russian peacekeepers and wounded three others, raising tensions in the separatist enclave days before a scheduled pullback of Russian troops from Georgian territory"

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/world/europe/04georgia.html?ref=world

    reading on...

    "According to the South Ossetian government, the car had been confiscated in an ethnic Georgian village, Disevi, which lies in the Russian-patrolled buffer zone outside South Ossetia. The South Ossetian government reported that the car was confiscated for moving violations and illegal possession of arms, and that they believe the bomb was detonated by remote control.

    Shota Utiashvili, head of the analysis department for Georgia’s Interior Ministry, said Georgia was not involved.

    “It’s completely unclear how it could have been done by the Georgians, as Kokoity has said,” Mr. Utiashvili said. “There is no way we can know where this car came from and why it was taken to a Russian military base.”

    Mr. Utiashvili said the explosion was part of a strategy to delay the planned withdrawal.

    “They have tried to create tensions several times by killing Georgian policemen, and we didn’t respond to any of the actions. They just did it themselves,” he said. "


    so they took a random car off the street and brought it inside the Russian base for it to explode?

    didn't they ever read the Illiad?

    is this gonna turn out to be one of those 'terrorist' attacks against Russia that strangely serves to further Kremlin's policies and for which no guilty party is found?
     
  4. johnh00

    johnh00 Member

    Apr 25, 2001
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    :D

    Classic!
     
  5. Anthony

    Anthony Member+

    Chelsea
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    Aug 20, 1999
    Chicago
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    United States
    Do American kids read the Illiad anymore?
     
  6. marek

    marek Member+

    Lechia Gdańsk
    Jun 27, 2000
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    they watch the movie

    [​IMG]
     
  7. Real Corona

    Real Corona Member+

    Jan 19, 2008
    Colorado
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    Is that a reality tv show on MTV?
     
  8. DJPoopypants

    DJPoopypants New Member

    read?

    What does that mean?
     
  9. Stud83

    Stud83 Member+

    Jun 1, 2005
  10. Anthony

    Anthony Member+

    Chelsea
    United States
    Aug 20, 1999
    Chicago
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    DC United
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    United States
    This is why Georgia cannot be allowed to join NATO. Had Georgia been a member of NATO, there would have been a requirement to shoot first and ask questions later.

    Considering that there was a poll showing something like only 1/3 of citizens of NATO countries would go to war to defend another NATO country, Georgia's application must be denied.

    This leaves aside the question why NATO still exists, considering the enemy it was formed to defend against itself no longer exists, but I'll stop here!
     
  11. Borussia

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    Jun 5, 2006
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    I don't think so.
     
  12. bigredfutbol

    bigredfutbol Moderator
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    Sep 5, 2000
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  13. Ismitje

    Ismitje Super Moderator

    Dec 30, 2000
    The Palouse
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    Ah, but unlike Georgia, Moldova would kick Russia's ass on the battlefield! ;)
     
  14. yasik19

    yasik19 Moderator
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    Chelsea
    Ukraine
    Oct 21, 2004
    Daly City
    Modovans wouldn't know what an ass is.

    Oh, if you only knew how many jokes in former USSR had to do with Moldovans.:D
     
  15. JBigjake

    JBigjake Member+

    Nov 16, 2003
    How many more countries can UEFA handle?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_of_the_Caucasus
    "There are more than 50 ethnic groups living in the region"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caucasus-ethnic_en.svg
    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/100262/Caucasian-peoples
    "the Romans carried on their business there through 80 interpreters. Arab geographers called the Caucasus Jabal al-Alsine, Mountain of Languages"
     

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