latimes.com— A key railway bridge was blown up by Russia and its allied forces, effectively severing all east-west transportation routes within Georgia, officials said.
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"a country which was simply destroyed by Russia after WW2"Oh poor little harmless Romania!From wikipedia:In June 1941, after a brief period of nominal neutrality under King Carol, Romania joined the Axis Powers. Romania became a member of the Axis under the government of Ion Antonescu [...]Throughout the Antonescu years, Romania supplied Nazi Germany and the Axis armies with oil, grain, and industrial products. [...]Even after the fall of the Iron Guard, the Antonescu regime, allied with Nazi Germany, continued the policy of oppression and massacre of Jews, and, to a lesser extent, Roma. According to an international commission report released by the Romanian government in 2004, Romania murdered, in various forms, between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews in Romania and in the war zone of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria. Of all the allies of Nazi Germany, Romania bears responsibility for the deaths of more Jews than any country other than Germany itself. The murders committed in Iasi, Odessa, Bogdanovka, Domanovka, and Peciora, for example, were among the most hideous murders committed against Jews anywhere during the Holocaust. [...]<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_War_II">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_ ...</a>What did you expect?
Yes, why don't we oversimplify. Russia did not defend its own land, it invaded a sovereign nation (one which coincidentally has a critical oil pipeline running through it). Yes, Georgia did shell its own civilians, and this is where they were wrong. However, Russia's reaction was far out of proportion to Georgia's, and it is little secret that they have been looking for an excuse to retake Georgia for some time. Oh, and I don't watch Fox News, but I would say it is no better or worse than MS-DNC or Huffington Spam.
This smells like a rotten fish at work , which is not uncommon with the current dear leader of Georgia who wears two faces one a fictional mask that he shows in public all the time but behind that mask hides the true face for evil !As for the Russians since they are supposedly digging in for the long term it would not make any sense to destroy alternate supply railway lines since you are looking at upwards to five thousand tonnes of supply per train load versus a mere one hundred and fifty tonnes by plane !Sounds more like local Georgian Mafioso black market scum trying to corner the tight food market to milk the helpless innocent but very dumb Georgian Peasants caught in the crossfire of every peseta they own down to their underage children for other tasks as well !Quite frankly , given the current evilness , thieving and chicanery caused but the best mates with their collective heads stuck in the pig feeding trough whilst draining the country worst then a plague of blood thirsty vampires whilst their leader who wears the mask of Janus , as to why they masses have not overthrown and forcefully evicted the current scum from office is quite literally beyond my comprehension !Talk about the blind being lead up the garden path !But as always the first casualty in any war is the truth and propaganda abounds as they did this so we did that and so forth !
dubbaseAug 18, 2008
"a country which was simply destroyed by Russia after WW2"Oh poor little harmless Romania!From wikipedia:In June 1941, after a brief period of nominal neutrality under King Carol, Romania joined the Axis Powers. Romania became a member of the Axis under the government of Ion Antonescu [...]Throughout the Antonescu years, Romania supplied Nazi Germany and the Axis armies with oil, grain, and industrial products. [...]Even after the fall of the Iron Guard, the Antonescu regime, allied with Nazi Germany, continued the policy of oppression and massacre of Jews, and, to a lesser extent, Roma. According to an international commission report released by the Romanian government in 2004, Romania murdered, in various forms, between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews in Romania and in the war zone of Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria. Of all the allies of Nazi Germany, Romania bears responsibility for the deaths of more Jews than any country other than Germany itself. The murders committed in Iasi, Odessa, Bogdanovka, Domanovka, and Peciora, for example, were among the most hideous murders committed against Jews anywhere during the Holocaust. [...]<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_War_II">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania_during_World_ ...</a>What did you expect?
bkaufmanAug 18, 2008
Yes, why don't we oversimplify. Russia did not defend its own land, it invaded a sovereign nation (one which coincidentally has a critical oil pipeline running through it). Yes, Georgia did shell its own civilians, and this is where they were wrong. However, Russia's reaction was far out of proportion to Georgia's, and it is little secret that they have been looking for an excuse to retake Georgia for some time. Oh, and I don't watch Fox News, but I would say it is no better or worse than MS-DNC or Huffington Spam.
ummagummas08Aug 18, 2008
LoL @ France 'standing up' to anyone.
heystoopidAug 18, 2008
This smells like a rotten fish at work , which is not uncommon with the current dear leader of Georgia who wears two faces one a fictional mask that he shows in public all the time but behind that mask hides the true face for evil !As for the Russians since they are supposedly digging in for the long term it would not make any sense to destroy alternate supply railway lines since you are looking at upwards to five thousand tonnes of supply per train load versus a mere one hundred and fifty tonnes by plane !Sounds more like local Georgian Mafioso black market scum trying to corner the tight food market to milk the helpless innocent but very dumb Georgian Peasants caught in the crossfire of every peseta they own down to their underage children for other tasks as well !Quite frankly , given the current evilness , thieving and chicanery caused but the best mates with their collective heads stuck in the pig feeding trough whilst draining the country worst then a plague of blood thirsty vampires whilst their leader who wears the mask of Janus , as to why they masses have not overthrown and forcefully evicted the current scum from office is quite literally beyond my comprehension !Talk about the blind being lead up the garden path !But as always the first casualty in any war is the truth and propaganda abounds as they did this so we did that and so forth !
geokenAug 19, 2008
No. I'm not trying to make any claims about what actually happened.
donquesoAug 19, 2008
.....they were forced to move their sites to places that couldn't be shutdown by attacks coming from moscow. you're the joke.