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Kremlin: South Ossetia Will Join 'One United Russian State'
timesonline.co.uk — The Kremlin moved swiftly to tighten its grip on Georgia ’s breakaway regions yesterday as South Ossetia announced that it would soon become part of Russia, which will open military bases in the province under an agreement to be signed on Tuesday.
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- khouros, on 08/30/2008, -2/+1The situation there makes me sad. Despite the unbridled neo-libertarian fanaticism that ravages through the ranks of some of the users here, the blame for this cannot rest entirely on Georgia. Georgians living in these two enclaves have been victims of violence as well, and when most of the international community doesn't recognize them as separate entities, who can say that in the minds of the people in power, they didn't consider themselves justified for mounting a military campaign in S. Ossetia?
In the United States, do people seriously think it would be a good idea for these numerous, scattered groups of people advocating their own state's independence be allowed to gather and carve up sections of the country simply because of their own inflated sense of self-importance and identity? If fifty farms in Vermont declared their independence, would they be in a better political or economic position than if they decided to remain a part of the country? What about the Indian nations?
Rather than an uncompromising stance that advocates absolute independence strictly along the lines of ethnicity, religion, etc., I would hope that people could move beyond such a limiting ideology. While most people here are pretty obviously of the former mindset, so-called "identity" is, in my own opinion, merely a manifestation of ego on a massive scale. Being a son of a certain European country, let me tell you, we allowed the idea of our own national self-importance get to our heads, and it led to the deaths of many, many people.
Make no mistake, Georgia is in the wrong for initiating military operations. However, assigning "blame" to any group of people in this instance is simply counter-productive. Russia and the US both need to abandon their own paranoid attitudes and airs of hostility and assist the people in the Caucuses to come to an agreement that can benefit all parties involved. This might, in fact, ultimately be the integration of S.Ossetia into Russia, or it might be a re-drawing of lines, taking into account the forced exodus of all the native Georgians who had been living in that region before Russia started interfering. - OC73, on 08/30/2008, -0/+5Where are all of Digg's usual Putin apologists, who've been saying that the criminal regime in Moscow's only goal was to liberate South Ossetia? How stupid do these naive imbeciles feel--the same ones that still carry Saddam's water (e.g., 'No threat! Secular! Hated terrorism!')--now that the thugs occupying The Kremlin have announced their plans to absorb South Ossetia?
- ORBAT, on 08/30/2008, -0/+3It's OK guys, they're just looking for Lebensraum.
- Shogi, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2They also plan to redo the curtains.
- KDX200rider, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2Well so it seems that Russia has played it hand. Where are all the Digg droids now? It seems clear what Russia had in mind all along.
- Onji, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Soviet Union 2: Electric Boogaloo
- MacBigot, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1As alluded to by ORBAT above, this is reminding me more and more of Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland. Where's the outrage on Digg and worldwide?!
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