Yes, I just read the tool’s (“nhworks”) missive and paean to the Russian mailed fist. And having the temerity to use the Kosovo issue as a link. Yugoslavia was never a Russian possession. Ally of sorts, yes. But that’s about it. Georgia had been under the Soviet Union for a long time, but I am seeing this lame rationalization being bandied about all over the weblog world since the Russian invasion began.

nhworks, does Slavic pride and honor require the destruction and annexation of Georgia in order to be satisfied? Does it demand the threats issued to Ukraine and other sovreign states that were once a part of the Soviet Union? Yes, Russia threatened the Ukraine for having supported Georgia and sold arms to them. Are not the Ukrainians Slavs too????? What about the Poles, and the peoples of the Baltic Republics?

There was no ethnic cleansing going on in Ossetia. That’s a bald lie that no one but a swiller of pig excrement would ingest. What WAS happening in Ossetia for years were bold prevarications which the Russian paramilitaries were directing towards the Georgians, and which they withheld retaliation of. But, the calculus of Putin was that at some point the intimidation and prevarication would eventually get to the Georgians. The 58th was waiting in the Caucasus Mountain pass for weeks at the ready for this occasion.

It really steams me to see Americans defending totalitarian Russia. I hope they find suitable lodging in Hades for their perfidy.