This is the fourth time in 13 years Putin has done this shit. It’s not just Crimea — it’s South Ossetia, Crimea, the Donbas, and now his latest designs on salami-slicing a former Soviet satellite on the Black Sea.
It is an intentional long game to control the entire region, confident that as an autocrat, he can out-wait relatively short-lived democratic administrations, leverage others with energy dependency, buy off others, hammer open preexisting divides between others, and generally capitalize on the continent’s dread of armed conflict.
And so far, he’s been right.
But unless it stops here, it won’t end here. And it has to stop. Anyone viewing this as just a Ukrainian/Russian matter is ignoring Putin’s underlying motivation, and is thinking with the relatively short-term constraints placed on the administrations of democratic governments.
Three strikes is more than enough. A dying nation with a crippled economy is exerting power the only way it knows how — stealing your lunch money and shoving you in the locker. If history (and grade school) has taught us anything, it’s that bullies never stop of their own accord, and enough is never enough for them.
They respond to one language only: being popped right back in the nose.
It’s horrible for the displaced people and they have my full sympathy and of cause Russia used the situation for their gain.
However the Georgian government of the time was a main contributor to this drama. Their actions in Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia before the Russian intervention was unacceptable and they kept feeding lies to the West about what was going on before and during the war. For example they blamed Russia for the use of cluster ammunition but later had to acknowledge that they were the ones using it.
My point is that the situation is difficult to Ukraine where Russia is undoubtedly the aggressor.
But it could make gas a little more expensive in Germany! Someone think of the gas prices!
US invaded Kosovo in 1999. Nearly 300 000 Serbs are still displaced from their homes.
Waiting for the German Reddit users to come in this thread and say that it’s the fault of the Georgians
anyhow.
If Georgia have given necessary autonomy to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 1991 then they wouldn’t have this problem.
But it’s too late now and you have pushed those people to point of no return, they don’t want to have anything with your country and they have full Russian military backing.
hey blinken – take care of all this afghans, syrian, iraqis … too? that got displaced from their homes because of YOUR COUNTRIES invasions? heared there are still sitting like 4 millions in turkey in refugee camps. and a lot camps in other countries too
how about you take care for your own bullshit before point fingers? fucking hypocrite
Is Blinken’s whole strategy to talk Russia to death? America’s been letting Russia get away with it for the last fourteen years.
Yes, and Georgia in return is not joining NATO. It was simple and effective tactic by Russians to get their way. You think anything different gonan happen with Ukraine? Russia will not invade the whole Ukraine, just the part of it inhabited by Russians if even that. The rest of it will be left to whoever wants to be a buffer neutral zone.
I don’t want to lose my independence, hopefully NATO will accept Georgia and Ukraine
Another Neo-Con shitfest.
I’d love to see the Venn diagram of pro-Russian agitprop posts and GenZedong posters. It’s so hilariously predictable by now, that it’s gotta be close to being one big purple circle.
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I’m glad Blinken highlighted this.
This is the fourth time in 13 years Putin has done this shit. It’s not just Crimea — it’s South Ossetia, Crimea, the Donbas, and now his latest designs on salami-slicing a former Soviet satellite on the Black Sea.
It is an intentional long game to control the entire region, confident that as an autocrat, he can out-wait relatively short-lived democratic administrations, leverage others with energy dependency, buy off others, hammer open preexisting divides between others, and generally capitalize on the continent’s dread of armed conflict.
And so far, he’s been right.
But unless it stops here, it won’t end here. And it has to stop. Anyone viewing this as just a Ukrainian/Russian matter is ignoring Putin’s underlying motivation, and is thinking with the relatively short-term constraints placed on the administrations of democratic governments.
Three strikes is more than enough. A dying nation with a crippled economy is exerting power the only way it knows how — stealing your lunch money and shoving you in the locker. If history (and grade school) has taught us anything, it’s that bullies never stop of their own accord, and enough is never enough for them.
They respond to one language only: being popped right back in the nose.
It’s horrible for the displaced people and they have my full sympathy and of cause Russia used the situation for their gain.
However the Georgian government of the time was a main contributor to this drama. Their actions in Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia before the Russian intervention was unacceptable and they kept feeding lies to the West about what was going on before and during the war. For example they blamed Russia for the use of cluster ammunition but later had to acknowledge that they were the ones using it.
My point is that the situation is difficult to Ukraine where Russia is undoubtedly the aggressor.
But it could make gas a little more expensive in Germany! Someone think of the gas prices!
US invaded Kosovo in 1999. Nearly 300 000 Serbs are still displaced from their homes.
[Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-georgia-russia-report-idUSTRE58T4MO20090930) maybe don’t start the war next time and hope the US is going to come right after
Waiting for the German Reddit users to come in this thread and say that it’s the fault of the Georgians
anyhow.
If Georgia have given necessary autonomy to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 1991 then they wouldn’t have this problem.
But it’s too late now and you have pushed those people to point of no return, they don’t want to have anything with your country and they have full Russian military backing.
hey blinken – take care of all this afghans, syrian, iraqis … too? that got displaced from their homes because of YOUR COUNTRIES invasions? heared there are still sitting like 4 millions in turkey in refugee camps. and a lot camps in other countries too
how about you take care for your own bullshit before point fingers? fucking hypocrite
Is Blinken’s whole strategy to talk Russia to death? America’s been letting Russia get away with it for the last fourteen years.
Yes, and Georgia in return is not joining NATO. It was simple and effective tactic by Russians to get their way. You think anything different gonan happen with Ukraine? Russia will not invade the whole Ukraine, just the part of it inhabited by Russians if even that. The rest of it will be left to whoever wants to be a buffer neutral zone.
I don’t want to lose my independence, hopefully NATO will accept Georgia and Ukraine
Another Neo-Con shitfest.
I’d love to see the Venn diagram of pro-Russian agitprop posts and GenZedong posters. It’s so hilariously predictable by now, that it’s gotta be close to being one big purple circle.
[Why is Ukraine the West’s Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4)
[Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-georgia-russia-report/georgia-started-war-with-russia-eu-backed-report-idUSTRE58T4MO20090930)
Somebody got short memory
Wait? Wan’t the Georgians who started the conflict? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War)