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Monday, August 18, 2008 |
Volkskrant: The family of Stan Storimans, the RTL cameraman who was killed in Georgia a few days ago, has said that the Dutch wife of Georgian president Saakashvili is not welcome at the funeral. The family does not want to give the funeral an extra political load and has chosen for a peaceful and modest burial.
10:04:49 PM 
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After his macho pride, Saakashvili is swallowing his tie.
By the way, why does he have a European Union flag in his office? Georgia is not a member of the European Union. The man lives in a fantasy world. He is non compos mentis.
BBC link.
5:58:28 PM
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Sir Mike Jackson, former Chief of the General Staff: "I believe more could have been done to welcome the new Russia into the international fold, to reassure Russia that it still maintained its very important standing as a permanent member of the Security Council and as a major actor on the world stage.
Moscow does not forget the searing experiences of being invaded over centuries through the Near Abroad. The outcome is grave Russian concern that many of these Near Abroad countries have become, or wish to become, members of Nato and the EU.
The post-Cold War history of the Balkans and the break-up of Yugoslavia have a lot to do with these perceptions and attitudes.
Nato relied for its justification on the emerging doctrine in international law that the prevention of humanitarian disaster - of ethnic cleansing - being perpetrated by a government on its own people can be more important than sovereignty itself. Whether we like it or not, this is precisely the justification advanced by Moscow for its intervention in Georgia.
South Ossetia, in particular, has an independence movement not averse to the use of illegal violence; it is worth bearing in mind that by agreement with Georgia, Russia had deployed so-called peace-keeping forces in south Ossetia long before the current crisis.
For me, the right course for the West - without compromising its own position and values - is to show a greater understanding of why Russia behaves as it does, to accept more willingly Russia's concerns for its Near Abroad.
This is the challenge for politicians and diplomats: strategic military hostility and confrontation must remain a thing of the past."
That is one of the few intelligent and just reactions to the Georgia problem.
If you look at the comments to this article, you notice a lot of plain hatred against Russia. Bush and Blair have managed to indoctrinate the public to a criminal degree. It is not in the Charter of the United Nations that hatred belongs to the accepted means.
The West has become immoral and this can only lead to war. Actually, it has led to war, more than one. When the US was accusing the Soviet Union of brainwashing, the CIA had started its own MKUltra project. When the US was accusing the Soviet Union of exporting revolutions, the US was actually exporting revolutions and wars all over the world. Since Goebbels' propaganda we haven't seen such a massive indoctrination campaign by the West. It's immoral.
Of course, all the aggessive talk of the West is in reaction to the victory of the Russian army in Georgia. The Russians have shown themselves to be very restrained, unlike any American or British military action recently. They have settled the matter in a few days with as less victims as possible.
If the West, with Bush, Brown and Merkel, continue their belligerent and unjustified hate campaign, we should see to it that NATO ceases to exist. NATO at present is the cause of conflicts and does not prevent war. The Germans seem to have their moment of revanchism on the nation that really conquired their Nazis - and we have to be thankful to Russia for this. It's the Germans Kohl and Genscher who started the war against Yugoslavia by arming the Croatian rebels (a nation that sided with the fascists in WWII). The Germans should keep a very low profile in this, lest they want to openly incur the odium of being fascist revanchists who want to get back at their erstwhile conquerors.
The US and Britain should start looking at the totalitarian nature of their own policits, and that includes their homelands.
The British Government has been accused by the United Nations of creating laws that have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the UK.
And the US can be called a failed, if not a fascist state.
WashingtonPost: "The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years."
I thought these were practices from Soviet Russia and the GDR.
The Western rage and hatred is all about its humiliating defeat and exposure of its hypocrisy; the Russians beat the hell out of them and they did it efficiently, proportionately, not like the botched up wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even quality papers like the Guardian have fallen in the ideological trap when they declared the propaganda war being won by the West. They haven't. Only the idiots who refuse to see reality haven't noticed that the Russians have the right on their side. Propaganda is futile. Those who can see, see. And the West has botched it good. The US was again caught with its pants down. That accounts for much of the feelings of hatred towards Russia. Russia won and they had the right on their side. South Ossetia and Abkhazia are from now on independent countries under the protection of Russia. Point. Live with it.
10:26:11 AM
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