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A few weeks ago the Russian newspaper Izvestia, a well-known and authoritive daily published nationwide and abroad, came forward with something that would have been looked upon as a conspiracy theory if published by a tabloid.
The paper suggested that by attacking South Ossetia, the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili had badly damaged a planned U.S. military operation against Iran. In the newspaper's opinion Georgia was supposed to play the role of another "unsinkable aircraft carrier" ...
Originally posted by xbranscombex
Can someone post a link with that Egyptian source?
Said it would happen in 2 days..
Well tonight is the last day
Originally posted by truth_seeker3
The USSR subsequently took all of East Europe and Cacaus under their wing as their own.
Originally posted by truth_seeker3
It took years for them to establish this.
Originally posted by truth_seeker3
This might be happening right now
Originally posted by maloy
Originally posted by truth_seeker3
The USSR subsequently took all of East Europe and Cacaus under their wing as their own.
Just so you know for your study - the Caucasus was part of USSR before WW2, and WW2 has nothing to do with this. Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia became part of USSR during the revolution and the resulting Civil War in the Russian Empire.
Originally posted by truth_seeker3
It took years for them to establish this.
Again - Caucasus has nothing to do with what you are saying.
Originally posted by truth_seeker3
This might be happening right now
How so? If it truly was "happening" now, why didn't Russia take Tbilisi and occupy all of Georgia - at one point of the recent conflict (August 10-11) it could have done that very easily and quickly.