- Aug 19, 2008
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It does seem incredible that the Georgians would launch an attack against South Ossetia knowing that the Russians had a major army stationed at the border as a deterent against such an attack. I can only figured one of the following:
1. The Georgians believed that Putin is an obsolute dictator and with him in Bejing no one in Moscow would have the balls to order an invasion of Georgia.
2. The Georgians and their American advisors believed that the Georgian Army was well trained & supplied and could either stop or slow down a Russian attack to the point of forcing a Russian withdrawl. They were very badly mistaken.
3. The Georgian free liberaterian economy was a gross failure and the governement was bound to be kicked out in the next election, so they hoped that a war with Russia would distract their own people and get them to vote the free liberaterians back in as an act of patriotism.
4. The Georgians decided to destroy Georgia by aggrevating a full Russian conquest of Georgia, which would help their buddy, John McCain, while the Georgian millionaire spent the rest of their lives posing as patriots in exile.
Probably a combination of all of the above.
I also don't know why we should care about Georgia:
1. The Russians created Georgia in the early 1800s by running the Persians out.
2. The only thing that Georgia has ever given the world is: Joseph Stalin
3. Georgia started this war in violation of a 1991 treaty. The Russians end it.
