http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/world/europe/10georgia.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Was discussing this with someone at an auction today. It's beginning to get very serious and violent. There's already been over 2,000 deaths. The man I was speaking with thinks this could turn into World War 3 if China keeps its vow to back Russia in this struggle. Thoughts?
Good thing you put "the country" in brackets, for a moment there I thought you meant this girl I knew in year 8 ...in all seriousness though, this has me kind of pessimistic to say the least. :\
Yes. Why the fuck does America feel like it needs to 'help' with ANYTHING that's wrong in the world? Yes, 'blah blah blah, we're a great nation! we have alot of influence.' It's just stupid, go make your economy better instead of finding an opportunity to let the rest of the world hate you. Just...mind your own business. o.o
It's practically the same to the situation we have in Kosovo. The main difference is that now Russia is for independence of another country's territory and US want to respect territorial integrity. There's no right and wrong anymore, only personal interests. While they're playing their game of risk ordinary people will suffer. Fuck that.
I've been away so I'm not completely up to date but from what I heard, Georgia asked for America's help. So what you're saying is too hasty. Also, I'm not one to back Bush but if there is a threat of a World War I'd like to know that the USA aknowledges that there's a threat and tries to do something rather than backing down and not doing a thing.
Well we also asked for Russia's help.. But anyway, I don't think there will be a WWIII. At least not now and directly caused by this. Ossetia will gain independence from Georgia, Russia will acknowledge it, USA won't, there will be debates about it in UNSC and that's it. And yeah, there's also a theory that all this was directed by the US, as a means of testing how far is Russia willing to go in their military action and also further destabilizing the area and preparing more wars in the middle east (Iran will be attacked soon, the rumor has it). Anything is possible today.
What I meant is that Bush doesn't seem very well-versed in that sort of thing himself. Sorry if there are any American members who don't like foreigners saying that sort of thing, I'll leave it alone now.
I'm not the most knowledgeable on this issue, so I'll shy away from any sort of definitive assessment of the situation at hand. I just hope it doesn't escalate much further and have more people lose their lives.
Sorry, you're right. Guess I got carried away. xD I don't believe this will turn into a WW3, at all. And if it was, ofcourse it'd be nice if countries aknowledge it, but then there's the question if it's handy to involve America, they easily drop bombs and destroy innocent lives. -.-
I saw it on the news on Sunday, and no joke, this was basically how it was worded. "Australia has won another 2 gold medals in *insert sports* and 1,500 people are dead in Georgia." There wasn't even a pause between the two stories, and the the Russia/Georgia conflict wasn't eben the lead story. The media gives me the shits.
While Russian tanks have taken the city Gori which is IN Georgia itself. Hellooooo Bush, you have some other war to win. Concentrate on that war first.
I don't like this situation at all. And I may not know much about it, but I don't like the fact that on a news channel, the moment an American citizen (living in South Ossetia, but rescued) started to say "Thanks to the Russian soldiers", she was cut off and ads came on. I don't like that this happened twice, with two different people. This is beginning to look heavily biased towards Georgia, and Saakashvili. Not only Georgians are dying, but Russian peacemakers, as well. Remember what this started with? 17 peacemakers dead, 70 injured. But yeah, okay, maybe I'm biased. I just want all this ridiculous fighting to stop. World peace, anyone? This video may seem interesting. It's the Georgian President, Mikhail Saakashvili, running for his life. He saw a helicopter - a plain helicopter, nothing suspicious going on - and pushed through the crowd of journalists he was being interviewed by, and ran for his life, leaving his bodyguards, the journalists, and everyone else who was with him, behind. Cowardly behaviour, in my opinion.
And... he knows that people are ready to give their lives up for him. I mean, firstly he is 'hiding' in an open field. He's only secured by the people who are willing to sacrifice themselves. Or maybe it's just me.
I think he was just overtaken by blind panic. It's weird. I mean, the bodyguards are there for a reason, no?