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Let Ossetia and Abkhazia be Russia's headaches
It's time for Georgia to cut its losses and just GIVE Russia both South Ossetia and Abkhazia! Oh, yeah, I know - those regions want their "independence". Yeah, right.... Like Russia is going to let them be independent... what a laugh.
Georgia, this is what you need to do: abandon South Ossetia and Abkhazia to the hell of Russian domination if that's what they want (and even if it's not), let Russia have the headache of Ossetian and Abkhazian separatism- they'll make a nice "bouquet" for Russia together with Chechnya... not to mention the impending crises in Russia's eastern regions.
Then secure the Georgian borders once and for all, join NATO and the EU and tell Russia where-it-can-go. It's time finally for Russia to know where its power ends.
As for the West, it's way, way past time finally to establish energy independence and boycott Russian oil. Stop drenching Russia with the capital it needs to pursue its dreams of empire.
The world needs to LISTEN to the presidents of Poland, Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia who gathered in Tbilisi. They KNOW what they're talking about more than ANY of the obsessively malcontented westerners who have glommed onto this event as just another chance to rant hysterically against George Bush. Those spoiled westerners never lived under the Russian empire.
As one of my Ukrainian neighbors said to me this morning, "Russia is the world's number one aggressor." He reminded me that while people talk about how WWII "started" on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, people for some reason forget that the USSR invaded Poland and Finland from the other side on September 15th. The USSR was hand-in-hand with Germany in launching the aggressions that launched WWII.
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14th August 2008, 17:01
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