Posted by
Jesse "The Mind" Norman on Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:00:00 AM
The recent invasion of sovereign, freedom-loving Georgia, a former Soviet republic, really shows that Russia will be what it always was. A power hungry and egomaniacal country. Russia's President might be Dmitry Medvedev, but he's just a puppet. It's Vladimir Putin who's running the show. That's the same Vladimir Putin who our President said he looked into the heart of and saw that he was a good man. He was WAAAAY off!
People are speculating why Russia took this audacious stance and many have speculated that it's about the oil pipeline that goes through Georgia into Turkey. That is a strategic point, but for that reason alone Putin wouldn't be going this far. Many are also speculating that it was about Georgia and other former Soviet republics possibly joining NATO. That's definitely part of it. That's not the whole story though. The real reason why Putin is doing this is to reacquire the former Soviet republics and get back to being the Soviet Union. With Putin, that was always his ambition. He said things our dumb President wanted to hear, all the while he's killing journalists and political dissidents including Alexander Litvinenko while he was in exile in England. Other people in England were contaminated by the radioactive substance (polonium-210) Litvinenko was given, as well as other critics of Putin. That didn't raise much of an eyebrow with the White House for some reason though.
Putin is very popular in Russia. His poll numbers reciprocate our President's poll numbers. Even though it's clear Putin is killing those with opposing voices, the Russian people love him because he's trying to restore their standing in the world. I'm quite sure poll numbers in Russia won't dip when it comes to Putin with the invasion of Georgia.
Georgia I'm afraid is just the first of other skirmishes as Moscow reestablishes it's might. The Ukraine and Baltic nations might be next. Who knows? Maybe even Poland might be on that list. All the while Putin is daring the US to do anything by giving the ultimatum "choose us or Georgia". Think you better look into Putin's eyes again, Mr. President. I'm quite confident that this is just the beginning. This could be Putin sending a message to other former republic nations to not join NATO, but I think this goes deeper than that. Russia could have sent that message and abided by the ceasefire they made easily. It was their own ceasefire proposal and without cause they broke it. As a matter of fact, it was never enacted. They never abided by it. It was just a ploy to make the world take more time in reacting to this while thinking it was over. It's obviously not over. As Russia gave the ceasefire, their tanks kept moving inside towards Georgia's city of Gori. This isn't a message at least to the other former Soviet republics. If anything, it's a message to the world. Mother Russia is reforming and there's nothing we can do about it unless NATO accepts Georgia into it immediately. With that though, that might mean full scale war with Russia. With Europe getting much of its energy from Russian pipelines, they will probably once again show their impotence. Germany might actually join Russia as screwed up as they are. This also shouts for us to become energy independent and drill off our own shores. Something that the dems won't even allow a vote on.
Politically speaking with our election, dem hopeful Barack Obama again showed his lack of strength by at first stating that both Russia AND Georgia should show some restraint. Georgia? What did Georgia do? Oy! McCain from the beginning said Russia should withdraw from Georgia immediately. Again Obama didn't take a clear stance. McCain again did. McCain went as far as to say Russia's presence in the G8 should be up for debate. The dems attacked McCain for taking such a strong stance against Russia saying it might just inflame tensions. Inflame tensions? They just invaded a sovereign nation and ally without just cause. McCain was right to take a strong stance as he has for years against Russia and specifically Putin. Just like when our President was seeing a good man in the eyes of Putin, John McCain saw something different. "I look into Putin's eyes and I see three letters, a K, a G, and a B." Well said, Mr. McCain. Watch out world. Here comes Mother Russia once again.