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Archive - Aug 18, 2008

Montag, 18.8.2008    

US expansion not Russian aggression

Schlimm genug das Blutvergiesen um Georgien - aber die "widerliche Scheinheiligkeit" des Westens - erst den Konflikt anheizen, um ihn dann völlig verdrehend auszuschlachten - ist mit diesem Artikel im britischen Guardian angemessen gebrandmarkt:

This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression
War in the Caucasus is as much the product of an American imperial drive as local conflicts. It's likely to be a taste of things to come ..
von Seumas Milne

... You'd be hard put to recall after all the fury over Russian aggression that it was actually Georgia that began the war last Thursday with an all-out attack on South Ossetia to "restore constitutional order" - in other words, rule over an area it has never controlled since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nor, amid the outrage at Russian bombardments, have there been much more than the briefest references to the atrocities committed by Georgian forces against citizens it claims as its own in South Ossetia's capital Tskhinvali. ... ganzer Artikel beim Guardian.

Es gibt viele Blogartikel die das ebenso in den Zusammenhang stellen - hab grad noch keine Zeit für mehr, sucht selber.