Lets look at an even broader picture here.
1.Not too long ago Georgian Special Forces raided the border of one of the rebeling regions and fired at an outpost (I think it was an outpost).
- Unfortunately I cannot find the link to a news article on this since the current conflict is the only thing on the page if I type "Georgia" into
a search engine.
- If I remember correctly there was no reason behind that raid, so it is safe to make a conclusion that it was an act of provocation.
- Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of sending instructors to Georgia to help train Georgia's Special Forces. While there
is no evidence available, this is a serious and bold accusation.
2. Remember the protests in Georgia in 2007? That right there is a reality check for
djerwulfe who interpreted the reason behind Russia's
current actions as simply being pissed at Georgia for being pro-western.
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www.iht.com...
- Georgian riot police attack and brutaly beat Georgians protesting against the current Georgian goverment and the course which the country was
heading in.
- Georgian riot police shows off their sparkly new "mickey mouse"
gear, and it doesn't take a Harvard graduate to tell that this gear is
clearly not manufactured in Georgia - obviously purchased (or supplied) from the west.
- Previously mentioned accusasions about Georgia's special forces being trained by foreign instructors comes to mind.
- Georgian riot police were using US tech to scatter the crowd. Those lovely noise dishes mounted onto cars were invented in the US as means of crowd
control. So while evidence of the US "training" Georgia's special forces is thin, there's a solid fact that it certainly is supplying them with
equipment. Even though this is not that major yet since this isn't exactly military equipment, just riot control toys.
3. Ukraine has been supplying weapons to Georgia since 2005.
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www.ruvr.ru...
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www.en.rian.ru...
- This starts taking place exactly one year after the Orange Revolution in Ukraine (2004), when current pro-western Ukrainian president Victor
Yushenko managed to snatch power. I live in Kiev, was present during the protests, so believe me when I tell you: it is surprising and shocking that
Yushenko started sending weapons to Georgia only after a year in office, befor he even remotely came close to fullfiling any of his promises that he
made during his elections (to this day none were fullfiled btw). Mind you these supplies of arms were not minor rifle shipments.
- "
In the fall of 2005, Kokoity for the first time said publicly that Ukraine was supplying T-72 tanks, Mi-8 helicopters, armored personnel
carriers, missiles and other weapons to Georgia." All that only after a year of friendship?
- Keep in mind that Saakashvili came to power through the Rose Revolution in 2003. So 2003 Georgia goes pro-western, followed by Ukraine in 2004,
with brand new Ukraine alost immediately starting to send aid to brand new Georgia? I smell a pre-planned agenda here guys.
- "
"It was done on the order from President Yushchenko," a former employee of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told the popular daily
Nezavisimaya Gazeta. He said the data provided by Ukraine to the UN Register of Conventional Arms were "declarative and voluntary," and therefore
likely to be incomplete." Oh snap! Declarative and voluntary actions ordered by the new pro-western president himself! So this was not Georgia
asking for arms...why would the new
pro-western goverment of Ukraine care this much about Georgia?!? Ukraine's own military is at the bottom
of the pit as it is!
4. Remember the Georgian military drone that was shot down by a Russian plane that was flying over Abkhazia? Abkhazia is one of the three regions
looking to seperate towards Russia.
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www.reuters.com...
- Georgia is not supposed to be flying over these regions according to the ceasefire agreement. So 4 months ago (this happened in April) Georgia was
was doing reconoissance over these regions huh? Interesting.
- The drone that was shot down was Israeli made if memory serves. There was a thread here on ATS on this, where ATSers identified that drone. That
drone was supplied to Georgia by the West. So now the West is not just supplying riot control toys to Georgia, but serious sophisticated military
tech. Ouch.
5.
Originally posted by maloy -Condoleezza Rice visited a month before the attack.
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www.dw-world.de...
- this would hardly be suspicious if it wasn't for the war that followed only a month after, but is still worth noting.
6.
Originally posted by maloy -U.S. held military exercises in Georgia right before the increase in hostilities.
And that's
the main course. Same source as #5, read down the page.
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www.dw-world.de...
- ".....the exercises had begun Saturday at Vaziani military base, less than 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Russian border." There's a
shocker. Vaziani is home to the 4th Infantry Brigade (link below)
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en.wikipedia.org...
- If it turns out that the 4th Brigade was the one that assaulted Ossetia then one should certainly not hesitate to blame the US for training an
agressor force responsible for deaths of many innocent civilians.
- The exercises ended on July 31st, that's a week befor the assault. Any suspicions there?
- Ossetia was chosen out of the three rebeling regions because if Georgia would attack Abkhazia or Ajara it would leave it's capitol Tiblisi
undefended IMO. Ossetian capitol is just 75miles away from Tiblisi. Should the Georgians be pushed back, they would just move back to defend Tiblisi.
They've even already prepared themselves for this by holding those exercises near their capitol, exercise codename - "Immediate Response" lol.
Here's a map of Russian Forces concentrations and air strikes in Georgia, plus a pretty good article about why Vaziani was bombed:
www.stratfor.com...
Regards
Maestro
[edit on 9-8-2008 by maestro46]
