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Originally Posted by Mark57
That's a bit of an oversimplification. From the first article I posted on this thread:
The people of South Oseetia have never considered themselves part of Georgia any more than the people of North Oseetia call themselves Russians. But that's where the lines were drawn.
Georgia has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a top McCain adviser and Bush insider and was either assured, or maybe simply assumed (I'm betting the former) US backing of their folly.
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Yeah, but where the lines are drawn is ultimately what governs. And it is one thing if the people of the area in question mount a revolution and break away. Another situation entirely when a foreign power comes in and does it, particularly if that foreign power, as seems likely here, adds the breakaway region to its own territory.
AS to the point about the green light, my impression is that the Georgians were told not to provoke the Russians. I hope the truth on this comes out, because if we did give them the green light, I am ashamed of us. And if we told them not to do what they did, I am pissed at them.