Comments on: Dishonest Broker http://registan.net/index.php/2007/03/14/dishonest-broker/ Central Asia News -- All Central Asia, All The Time Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:58:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nathan http://registan.net/index.php/2007/03/14/dishonest-broker/comment-page-1/#comment-368006 Nathan Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:27:57 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/03/14/dishonest-broker/#comment-368006 But Georgia is willing to fight, and Russia understands that. Georgia recently took Kodori by force from the militia that had been running it. I have my doubts that Russia really wants to fight. The segment of the Georgian army that is better trained and equipped than the Russian military keeps growing. Granted, we don't want to fight over it, and I'm not suggesting we should. But we should pressure Russia to quit pretending to be neutral and to leave. Shit or get off the pot, as it were. If Russia wants to annex the territory, it needs to do so. If it recognizes them as independent, it needs to do so. If it agrees that it is under the sovereignty of Georgia, it needs to leave. The whole situation is absurd. The peacekeepers there need to be from a more neutral country. And, by the way, there is evidence. It's just not been presented by anyone but Georgia yet. But Georgia is willing to fight, and Russia understands that. Georgia recently took Kodori by force from the militia that had been running it. I have my doubts that Russia really wants to fight. The segment of the Georgian army that is better trained and equipped than the Russian military keeps growing.

Granted, we don’t want to fight over it, and I’m not suggesting we should. But we should pressure Russia to quit pretending to be neutral and to leave. Shit or get off the pot, as it were. If Russia wants to annex the territory, it needs to do so. If it recognizes them as independent, it needs to do so. If it agrees that it is under the sovereignty of Georgia, it needs to leave. The whole situation is absurd. The peacekeepers there need to be from a more neutral country.

And, by the way, there is evidence. It’s just not been presented by anyone but Georgia yet.

]]> By: Laurence http://registan.net/index.php/2007/03/14/dishonest-broker/comment-page-1/#comment-367993 Laurence Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:17:34 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2007/03/14/dishonest-broker/#comment-367993 Nathan, Interesting news item, but I don't think America or the EU want to go to war over Georgia, given what's happening in Iraq or Afghanistan. This incident may have literally been a "shot across the bow" by the Russians. MESSAGE: If you are not willing to fight, stop stirring up trouble--because Russia is willing to fight over Georgia...and maybe over Kosovo, too... Just speculation, of course since there is no evidence. Nathan, Interesting news item, but I don’t think America or the EU want to go to war over Georgia, given what’s happening in Iraq or Afghanistan. This incident may have literally been a “shot across the bow” by the Russians. MESSAGE: If you are not willing to fight, stop stirring up trouble–because Russia is willing to fight over Georgia…and maybe over Kosovo, too…

Just speculation, of course since there is no evidence.

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