Russia's president, Dmitri Medvedev, said today his country would respond in a way similar to its actions in Georgia this month if its citizens or forces came under attack again. The Kremlin leader, addressing a news conference with Ms Merkel, said no one should be in any doubt about Russia's response if its people came under attack. "If someone continues to attack our citizens, our peacekeepers, we will of course respond in just the same way we have responded. There should be no doubt..."

Originally posted by DJMessiah
reply to post by Bama camper

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Can you tell us what's wrong with living in Russia? I take it, US is the only place in the world with freedom, if I understand you correctly.

If you have noticed, our spread of "freedom" means converting others at gun point to a democratic nation. This convert or die mentality is not freedom. You cannot force people to accept your views as freedom, when you're taking away their choice of goverment.

This entire war between Russia and Georgia probably all started because Georgia thought they had the "freedom" to kill people with US backing them.

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian President, today promised a “shattering” blow against any foreign power that moved against Russian citizens.

The threat will compound the fears of former Soviet states which are concerned that they could be next after the Russian attack on Georgia.

“If someone thinks they can kill our citizens, kill soldiers and officers fulfilling the role of peacekeepers, we will never allow this,” Mr Medvedev told a group of Second World War veterans in Kursk. “Anyone who tries to do this will receive a shattering blow.”

He continued: “Russia has the capabilities — economic, political and military. Nobody has any illusions left about that.”