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27 Aug 2008 12:13 pm
Who Started The War?
Totten reports from Georgia:
Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,” the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion.
Virtually everyone is wrong.
Georgia didn't start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South
Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on
Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the
agreement hammered out between the two sides in 1994. At the same time,
the Russian military sent its invasion force bearing down on Georgia
from the north side of the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian side of
the border through the Roki tunnel and into Georgia. This happened
before Saakashvili sent additional troops to South Ossetia and
allegedly started the war.
It's a box inside a box inside a box of ethnic resentment and ancient territorial struggle. So we should grant one faction in it membership in NATO?
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