"EU report concludes Georgia, Russia share blame for 2008 war" by Megan K. Stack, Los Angeles Times | October 1, 2009
MOSCOW - The most commonly accepted version of events has varied little since the war erupted: Russia meddled for years, supporting separatists in South Ossetia and Georgia’s other breakaway republic, Abkhazia; distributing passports and pension payments to residents of the rebel regions; and using the separatists as a countermove to American support for Georgia and for the independence of Kosovo.
Translation: This is the HORSE S*** VERSION PEDDLED by the war-promoting, enemy-creating, agenda-pushing Zionist AmeriKan Press!!!!!
The EU report does not confirm Georgian claims of a massive Russian troop influx before the Georgian attack.
That is because THERE WAS NONE until AFTER GEORGIA STARTED IT and then got its ass kicked!
However, it does give weight to reports that Russia had been arming and training separatists and had allowed mercenaries to cross into Georgia in the days before the war.
Yeah, IGNORE the WHOLE USRAELI angle to the damn thing, EU tools (see links below, readers!
The report also notes that extra Russian soldiers were on hand in South Ossetia at the outbreak of the war, and that Russian bombardment began earlier than Moscow claimed.
Russia is also criticized for its claims that Georgia was carrying out a genocide against South Ossetians, for failing to honor Georgia’s cease-fire, and for failing to stop South Ossetian militiamen from looting, burning, and raping their way through ethnic Georgian villages.
The report says Russia seriously escalated the conflict. Russian tanks plunged far into Georgia, slicing the country in two and stopping just 30 miles short of the capital. Some 850 people were killed in the war, which crushed Georgia’s military....This is about the time the EU puckers up, unbuckles, and unzips Israeli fly, right?
But other observers took a more nuanced stand....
“It’s 100 percent important who started the war. It’s the main issue of every war,’’ said Sergei Markov, a Russian lawmaker seen as close to the Kremlin....
YUP!!!!!
Georgia’s artillery barrage against the breakaway republic of South Ossetia sparked a brief but bloody war in 2008 with Russia, according to a long-anticipated investigation released yesterday by the European Union.
Related: The Georgian Gambit
Russia Has the Right
We knew WAY BACK THEN and NEVER FORGOT!
GEORGIA STARTED THIS at the BEHEST of USrael-- who armed and trained them!!!! This also serves the dual purpose of screwing up Russian supply lines to Iran when WWIII unfolds soon.
And why is the BG ignoring what is going on there now?
But the independent report commissioned by the EU also blames Russia for provoking the conflict and escalating the fighting beyond “the reasonable limits.’’
Hope you don't mind freezing this fucking winter when they cut off your gas (or the Georgians steal it), EU!
What an ARROGANT COLLECTION of ELITIST S***-STAINS!
“There is no way to assign overall responsibility for the conflict to one side alone,’’ the report concludes.
Yeah, when OUR TOOLS and PROXIES START ONE, we don't know!!!!
Months of investigation appear to have done little to change the generally accepted account of events or to have ended a public relations battle over which side was justified. Both Russia and Georgia said the report backed up their own narratives of the conflict.
The Kremlin was quick to hail the finding that Georgia’s attack “marked the beginning’’ of the war. “We can only welcome this conclusion,’’ a Kremlin spokeswoman said.
The Georgian government said the EU investigation concluded “that Russia invaded Georgia; Georgia never attacked Russia or any other country.’’
Then what were those shells coming down and destroying South Ossetia?
Greeting cards?
“The report confirms that Russia committed an act of aggression against a sovereign state,’’ according to the report, written by Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini. The bitterly debated question of who started the war has loomed over the region for the past year.
It is ONLY A QUESTION in the MINDS of WESTERN ELITES and their MOUTHPIECE MSM outlets!! The REST of the WORLD KNOWS the TRUTH!!!!
The Georgian government claimed that it had attacked South Ossetia in response to an onslaught of Russian forces.
Which is a LIE!
Moscow, which had peacekeepers based in the breakaway republic, insisted that additional troops were sent into South Ossetia and then deep into Georgia to defend against a Georgian operation already under way.
How sad is it, America, when the RUSSIANS are the TRUTH-TELLERS in this world?
The EU report is couched carefully, saying the Georgian shelling of the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, on Aug. 7, 2008, had started the fighting and could not be justified under international law.
Then we have a WAR CRIMES SITUATION, don't we?
What is with USrael and her allies, huh?
But the report also blasts Moscow for tampering in Georgia’s affairs and waging a war that “went far beyond the reasonable limits of defense.’’
I knew there was a but coming, and USRAELI TAMPERING ANYWHERE is OKAY, right, EU? Heck, the BRITS and OTHERS have their OWN SPY OUTFITS out in the former Soviet Republics. That's one reason the break-up was engineered: Eastern Europe is a hotbed and base for the Jewish Mafia.
“Any explanation of the origins of the conflict cannot focus solely on the artillery attack on Tskhinvali,’’ the report says.
No, because THAT WOULD IMPLICATE OUR OWN BLOODY HANDS in the whole thing, wouldn't it?
“It must take into account years of provocation, mutual accusations, military and political threats, and acts of violence.’’
Yeah, but if USrael is doing the threatening or violence, NOT A PEEP from the E-shmoo!!!!!!!
The war lasted five days. But the war over the war - who was right and who was wrong, who was the victim and who the aggressor - lingers unresolved, feeding distrust between Moscow and the West and deepening tensions over geopolitical identity in the former Soviet Union.
Only in shit-headed globalist minds and their rectal portals known as newspapers.
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Also see: HRW's One-Sided War Report
MOSCOW - Russia’s population has fallen by 6.6 million since 1993, despite the influx of millions of immigrants, a United Nations report said today, and by 2025 the country could lose an additional 11 million people.
They are a fine one to talk: The Move to Depopulate the Planet
They must be happy about this, no?
The result could be labor shortages, an aging population, and slower economic growth, the UN said.
Well, that is THEIR PROBLEM to SOLVE, not yours!!! WTF, readers?
Recent Kremlin efforts to reward women for having more babies have caused a surge in the birth rate, the report said, but that will not make much difference in the long term.
:-)
So NICE to SEE in such a PRO-ABORTION COUNTRY!!!
Yeah, THAT is where THEY basically INVENTED the disgusting, profit-making, life-killing procedure!
It urged Russia to reduce its high mortality rate - similar to that in parts of sub-Saharan Africa - through changing its public health system and by encouraging lifestyle changes - especially a reduction in alcohol consumption.
Oh, you think that's it? The vodka?
What I see are GLOBALISTS STICKING THEIR AGENDA-PUSHING NOSES in OTHER PEOPLES' BUSINESS!!!
The United Nations Development Program report, titled “Russia Facing Demographic Challenges,’’ predicted that Russia will be forced to adapt to a smaller population and work force. Population levels in many developed countries have stagnated and are expected to fall by 2025, but Russia’s population, currently around 142 million, has been in retreat since 1992. Russia’s mortality rate is among the highest in the developed world, with average life expectancy for males at barely 60 years.
Yeah, that is kind of low.
Don't they have universal, single-payer, government-run healthcare?
Better think about that national health plan again, 'murka?
For reasons that are not fully understood, Russians suffer very high levels of cardiovascular disease. But most specialists blame the country’s overall high death rate on one factor, alcohol. It has been linked to everything from liver disease to Russia’s high number of murders, suicides, and fatal accidents....
Sounds like swine flu over here. You get sick, it's swine flu!
Dying in Russia? Must be the booze.
An influx of immigrants over the past 16 years has helped soften the impact of Russians dying young and having fewer children.
You would figure the globalist UN would see things that way.
But the report says that many of these immigrants were ethnic Russians returning to their homeland from other former Soviet states, and that this is mostly over.
Oh.
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