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“We can fight now when they are on bicycles, or in a few years when they rule Europe.”
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Russia has had military forces in Southern Ossetia continuously since the year 1801. For comparison, Ohio became a US state in the year 1803.

Throughout Russia’s long presence in Southern Ossetia, Russia has helped protect Ossetian cultural autonomy from the Georgians. During the Soviet period, that area was defined as the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, an arrangement that enabled that ethnic group to administer its own schools, mass media and cultural institutions in the Ossetian language. Every inhabitant of that authonomous oblast had the legal right to conduct all his personal legal affairs in that language.

Because of that historical background, the Ossetians trust and welcome the Russians to protect their endangered language and culture from the Georgians. Furthermore, the Russians themselves do no think of themselves as invading or occupying this area or doing anything that deserves any criticism from Europe, the USA or anyone else.

Arguing that Russia’s military intervention to protect South Ossetia is just a perlude to Russia ruling Europe in a few years is absurd.

All this hysterical nonsense ought to give us a better understanding about the Russian’s hysterical reaction to USA’s intervention in the former Yugoslavia to protect the Bosnians and Albanians from the Serbs. In that situation, the Russians hollered sanctimoniously that our humanitarian intervention to save the evil Moslems from the saintly Serbs was a prelude to the USA trying to take over the entire world. Now we are seeing a similar stupidity in reverse.