12th August 2008, 10:00 PM
Been a long time coming this one and as someone already said it's the ordinary people in the middle who are the innocent victims. Strikes me you don't go poking an angry bear (pun intended)when your own military position is so weak, even if right is on your side (which is debatable here). I'm sure Russia would love to reintegrate many of the former Soviet republics and this sort of situation gives it a great excuse.
Would I be too cynical in wondering if oil is not at the back of this conflict, as in so many others? There's a nice pipeline running through Georgia these days isn't there?
And did none of the media notice the irony of Russia attacking Gori, birthplace of a certain moustached dictator I believe (who may himself have been Ossetian rather than Georgian)
Would I be too cynical in wondering if oil is not at the back of this conflict, as in so many others? There's a nice pipeline running through Georgia these days isn't there?
And did none of the media notice the irony of Russia attacking Gori, birthplace of a certain moustached dictator I believe (who may himself have been Ossetian rather than Georgian)