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Originally Posted by Mark57
The fact is that, despite all the noise from Bush and McCain to the contrary, our "ally" was wrong. Georgia attacked South Ossetia, killing a lot of civilians many of whom are Russian citizens or hold Russian passports. Russia is going to take South Ossetia back at this point no matter what we or NATO or the UN wants to say about it. And if we or NATO or the UN makes too much noise about it they might take all of Georgia back as well.
The absolutely stupidest thing any American president could possibly do at this point is to attempt to intercede. I hope Bush isn't stupid enough to do anything like "inflict some losses on the Russians", but at this point the only thing we don't know about his stupidity is it's true depth.
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So correct.
A quote from Bush regarding this:
"Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state.... Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century.... We have no doubts about it. This is a deliberate attempt to destroy an entire country and change the regime."
And with that, we know exactly what Putin will say or would have said right back at Bush. We now can't even do a damn thing in regards to diplomacy. We're in a frickin' hole and it's our own damn fault.
Putin did what he did WHEN he did it since he knew full well no one could stop him - even the US.