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Originally Posted by kermitology
The worst part about this whole ordeal is the two faced lies and bull crap coming out of the United States leadership, and the fact that it's all we get to hear about.
The United States is demanding that Russia respect the borders and autonomy of Georgia, but Georgia started the whole damn thing.
You don't poke a bear and then cry that it's unfair when it claws your face off.
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I think you can only come to your conclusions if you omit any history before the day Georgia moved it's troops into one of it renegade provinces. Before that day Russia had been active in fostering discontent among these provinces. They provided weapons and money to separatist forces within the nation of Georgia and even went so far as issuing the separatists Russian passports for travel abroad. Imagine if the States had funded the separatists in Quebec with money and weapons during the seventies. Imagine if the USA issued passports to the terrorist elements in Quebec. This was the state of things in Georgia leading up to this current conflict. Georgia being a little guy without much clout was trying to gain membership in NATO or some other international organization in order to gain some protection from this big bully(Russia). This didn't happen because the West hasn't been too keen on crossing swords with Russia.
Georgia did move troops into one of it's disputed provinces but, this was not an invasion; It is after all their territory. By doing that they expose Russia to the international attention and condemnation it should have been getting all along. This may end badly with the permanent loss of these territories. But Georgia had already been trying for years through diplomacy to get support from the West against Russia's underhanded treatment of them. If Georgia hadn't moved to secure its borders this slow erosion of their sovereignty would have(no doubt) continued unabated. At least now Russian actions are in the spotlight.