See Stan Rosenthal’s comments on BBC Newsnight’’s definitive investigation published in Progress Online Blog section.
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Thanks to the scot-free war criminal Saakashvili of Georgia who we are massively funding, ironically Stalin will have the last laugh at our cost!

What about Russia and Georgia?

A real humdinger of a David Miliband/John Humphrys interview yesterday on Today, which for me made David Miliband international viewpoint rather clearer. In short my take from that is that David Miliband is firmly and clearly keeping the UK on the U.S. pillion seat.

A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Cold War II!

Despite the tragic loss of life, nothing much seems to have changed in Georgia as the pieces re-settle. Except perhaps making ultimate resolution more difficult, and strengthening both sides ties to their Russian and US backers. But South Ossetia and Abkhazia are only two regions that make up the four ‘frozen conflicts’ remaining from the breakup of the Soviet Union. Transnistria and Nagorno-Karabakh are the other two. Chechnya, which borders Georgia, is different in that it does not directly involve an internationally recognised state other than Russia.

Say it ain't so :-(

 

In war-torn Georgia, are we guilty of pretending to treat the disease by its symptoms? 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7559252.stm

Very strong reaction from Bush. The US MILITARY is sending "humanitarian" aid to Georgia.

Interesting, if slightly worrying times we live in.

Where is Brown? - People want to hear a statement personally from our leader. An aggressor state is once again at EUROPE'S DOOR.

Many on all sides of debates about Iraq, Afghanistan and even Kosovo, thought that those of us who focused on questions of international law and the status and credibility of the UN had missed the real point and were engaging in a diversion.

But events are unfolding that show that the world has become a far more dangerous place.  Why?  Because unilateral intervention has become the modus operandi of those parts of the international community with hegemony, and therefore the mark of a real world power is one that can ignore the processes of international government and law.

Has Labourhome become a principal mouthpiece of Labour politicians who seem to be cut off from reality?   

After Georgia attempted to restore order to its legal sovereign territory - South Ossetia - Russian tanks and fighters have crossed into Georgian land and airspace.

Russia wants all the oil in the Caspian for itself - to control and intimidate the West. A full scale attack on Georgia must be met by NATO.

 

Well its another day. We've had Pakistan, then Kenya and now that its Sunday, it must be the turn of Georgia. Unpopular corrupt Presidents and Oppositions who are probably funded by wealthy outside donors so that they can take a cut of the profits if their Party ever gets in, and rigged elections; calls for mass demonstrations on the streets in protest which will inevitably result in oppressive suppression by the police and deaths.
They obviously cannot govern themselves.
Makes you wish we were back in the old USSR, when there was some semblance of order, you could walk safely out on the streets, and the shelves were filled, and practically everybody had a job.
Ok it too was corrupt regime and the commissars were taking their cut, and the secret police were monstrous, but at least there was order and some certainty and the poor people could get on with their lives instead of being buffetted and filled with false promises and subjected to consumerism and all the downsides of capitalism and greed.
Lets have the Russians stepping in and arbritrating this dispute. The last thing they want on their doorstep is a string of unstable Republics in the pocket of the West and a threat to their security. The Russians want some order on their borders.
Can someone tell me when the Ukraine is next up for the polls?