Saakashvilli- that really should be Saakaswally-, thought he could use the smokescreen of the opening of the Olympic Games to launch a brutal military assault against the people of the breakaway province of South Ossetia. In a referendum, 99% of South Ossetians said ‘nyet’ to any association with Georgia, but hey, what does a little thing like democracy matter when you’re the neocons’ man in the Caucasus.
But Saakaswally’s cunning- (and utterly despicable) plan, has spectacularly back-fired. The murder of ten Russian peacekeepers – and the slaughter of hundreds of innocent South Ossetians has led Moscow to send in the tanks. And the planes. And now the hapless Georgian President is appealing for ‘help’ against Russian ‘aggression’(!- yes, please try and keep a straight face) from the EU and the US.
Taking page directly from the Croat, Bosnian Muslim and Kosovo Albanian filthy wars — internationalizing the issue and crying for Western help while attacking others — Georgian president “appealed directly to the international community, saying the confrontation was concerned America, values and freedom.”
KLA, anyone?
“Saakashvili said his five million-strong nation, with its comparably small army, has no chance of defeating the might of Russia. That is why he has called on the outside world to step in and halt what he called Moscow’s blunt aggression.”
So, even though Saakashvili’s well aware he can’t possible take Russia on, he still attacks and kills Russian peacekeepers and civilians in South Ossetia. That could only be because he knows he can count on U.S.-led NATO to fight his dirty war. Just like Tudjman, Izetbegovic and Thaci before him.
Is United States now going to get into the war with Russia? Is NATO going to bomb Moscow now? If they claim Russia is an “aggressor” for trying to protect 75,000 hapless Russians in South Ossetia, then they should try to attack Russia like Serbia, see how that one goes… whether they get to fly over Western Europe before getting their teeth bashed in. Or, more likely, are they “just” going to have NATO march in Russian-populated South Ossetia under the guise of “peacekeepers”, to let Georgia’s Thaci exterminate all the Russians and get that strategic chunk of Caucasus under their boots, exactly like the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija? We shall see.
Right on cue, the professional Russophobes are crawling out from beneath their stones, penning their rabidly anti-Moscow propaganda pieces- a mendacious narrative in which the aggressors become the victims of aggression and the victims of aggression the aggressors. But this is one dispute that even the neocons can’t spin to their advantage. Saakaswally took an almighty gamble- and lost. No one is going to go to his assistance. The former employee of Patterson, Belkan, Webb and Tyler is going to be taught a lesson he’ll never forget.
Never provoke a bear.
