Georgia Fired The First Shot
So there.
The massively “elected”, mind-bogglingly corrupt, mentally defective Saakashvili sent in his forces to exterminate the population of a territory which had never been part of Georgia until Stalin (yes, Stalin) redrew the map, which had not been run by Georgia since the fall of the Soviet Union, and whose people were Russian citizens closely connected to those in the neighboring part of Russia from whom and from which they had only ever been sundered by fiat of one of the worst mass murderers of all time.
He did so in order to prevent that territory from taking a stand against the three closely interrelated forces of global capital, European federalism, and American “full spectrum dominance”.
Between that day and this, all three of those have collapsed.
Think on.
[...] David Lindsay at Post Right: The massively “elected”, mind-bogglingly corrupt, mentally defective Saakashvili sent in his forces to exterminate the population of a territory which had never been part of Georgia until Stalin (yes, Stalin) redrew the map, which had not been run by Georgia since the fall of the Soviet Union, and whose people were Russian citizens closely connected to those in the neighbouring part of Russia from whom and from which they had only ever been sundered by fiat of one of the worst mass murderers of all time. [...]
Yes, and it takes a real mindless dolt to believe the stupid propaganda that was being churned out in the US during that futile little war. Here in Europe, we woke up to see the news of a massive GEORGIAN attack in Ossetia (which actually had been building for a few days), there was no confusion in the normally anti-Russian West European press over the cause. Only once the Russians entered and dawn broke in America did anyone try to corrupt the reported order of events.
The issue concerning Abkhazia’s inclusion in Georgia is much trickier. Since Stalin was not a known Georgian nationalist, it would be difficult to fob the blame onto him. Remember the Caucasus began as a single Soviet Republic once it was reconquered in the early 20s, then split into three. Abkhazia was historically occasionally part of Georgia. However, they had a certain autonomous status within the Georgian SSR and the Abkhaz langauge was used to some extent in schools and official business.
It is in the late 80s as Georgia tried to become independent that they attempted to end Abkhazia’s autonomous status and repress the native language and culture. The intellectual basis for this is the lie that the Abkhaz people and langauge are related to Georgian (they aren’t, period), which had already been discredited for some years in the Soviet Academy. This caused the push for Abkhaz independence and the civil war. I will add, oddly, some of the Chechen and Ingush rebels volunteered for the Abkhaz as there were dreams of a Trans-(North) Caucasian confederation. Later, of course, the Georgian nationalists would make common cause with Chechen radicals against Russia.
However, Russia played a shrewd and not entirely honest game with Abkhazia. They maintained that they were politically part of Georgia until last year while granting the residents citizenship. Also, Abkhazia is such a huge deal in Georgia because 45% of the population there was Georgian before the civil war (now probably 5%, all by the southern border). They have an ongoing refugee crisis and understandably demand the right of their own to resettle their old homes.
Ossetia was the issue of the war, and that is fairly straightforward. But it is hard to take a clear, unapologetic side on the question of Abkhaz independence.
A triple-digit word count, Lindsay! I hope you got some sleep after posting!