I've been listening to the events unfolding in Georgia and I find myself sympathetic towards the Russians. The West has been criticizing Russia harshly without saying barely a word about the Georgian attack on the South Ossettians...To listen to Condaleeza Rice talking, you would think that the USA hadn't done anything when its borders were threatened by left wing governments in Latin America and it sent mercenaries and undercover agents in to back the right wing elements in Nicaragua and El Salvador and has overthrown left wing governments in South America and has consistently blockaded Cuba...I heard an interesting discussion on the news this morning with a Major and an historian who both said that, when the wall fell in Berlin, the West humiliated Russia instead of wooing it, and now it has regained its confidence it's not surprising it is flexing its new found muscles in its old Soviet Union countries, which it hasn't fully recovered from losing yet...it must be worried by the advancing tide of Nato countries now bordering it, and the effort not to lose Georgia and the Ukraine must be important to it...if they both get absorbed into the EU, then NATO can put military bases on their soil and, while they are saying their missiles are not aimed at Russia, it doesn't take any stretch of the imagination to know that they can easily be turned towards Russia if the West thinks it's stepping out of line.
I watched with disbelief a demonstration in Tel Aviv with Jewish people demonstrating against Russia and shouting for them to get out of Georgia...what bloody hypocrisy!! They have invaded Palestinian territory and are still there now, they've cut off Gaza because they feel threatened by Hamas and they still have the audacity to demonstrate against Russia coming to the aid of its citizens in South Ossettia...the hypocrisy of the West in this situation is mind boggling...as the Russians said today...nobody is telling the Georgians to get out of the territory they have invaded only them, and accuse the West of bias...and they're damned right...our bias is ill thought through and dangerous to peace and stability in the whole region...I've no idea how this is going to end, but, at least, the two voices on the news this morning said something that had been going through my mind since this whole business exploded...
Don't know what anybody here thinks about this, so would be interested to hear any of your views....