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The country, not the state.

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valley_parade:
We're going to all fly there and be peacekeepers!

GEORGIACON 08!

waterloosunset:
Russia says that around 60% of the South Ossetians have Russian Citizenship, and have the right to secede, with Kosovo as a precedent. However, the area is still Georgian sovereign territory, and they have the right to maintain it. We in the west can't really criticise either party either- The US invaded another sovereign country without reason, and we in the UK had 30 years of trouble with Northern Ireland

KharBevNor:
I think that the US should fight Russia.

I mean lets be honest, it is obvious that both country is itching to do it. They're still tooled up for massive conventional war and they never got to use any of their cool gear. I think they should sign a gentlemens agreement not to use nukes, maybe hand the keys to Finland or something? Then they should just duke it out old-school. The news footage will be fucking AWESOME. Of course, I don't think they should fight in South Ossetia, because those dudes have already had a pretty raw deal. How about somewhere out in some desert? There's a nice little mountain in Isreal they could use:

SimpsonsParadox:
This actually scares me a bit. As stated before, Russia doesn't tend to give a rats ass about world opinion. It seems the only way to deter them would be through force. I wouldn't be surprised to see large naval formations from NATO countries moving closer to western Russia soon. I also wouldn't be surprised to see American 'Technical' or 'Advisory' assistance to the Georgians (Georgianians?) soon. Hopefully this can be solved through diplomacy, but even then it doesn't bode well. If Russia gets off with anything lighter than a total rollback to how it was before Russia invaded, they're going to take this as a sign that they can do this to other countries and get away with full benefits. We'll just have to wait and see.

tommydski:
Russia is the biggest country in the world but from a financial perspective, they are essentially a house of cards. They can't afford a major war and comparing their defence and military spending to other countries puts it into perspective. The United States spends on its military 5.8 times more than China, 10.2 times more than Russia and 98.6 times more than Iran. That's just the US, not the western allies or NATO. In fact, the US and its strongest allies (the NATO countries, Japan, South Korea and Australia) spend $1.1 trillion on their militaries combined, representing 72% of the world's total.



Thus when people talk about a 'New Cold War' or another war between the super-powers, it's difficult to take it seriously. Putin made a good show of things while he was in power because it was a big part of his plan to make Russia seem like a force in the economic and geopolitical community. He was trying to make Russian a going concern in the world theatre one more time for the benefit of their people. Sometimes he did it completely ridiculous ways. This is an example of that continuity. Comparatively small acts of aggression against former Soviet Bloc nations.

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