Thanks to ‘anonymous’ (I wish you guys would use some kind of handle when posting anonymously) for this cartoon:
Saker Message:
Thanks to ‘anonymous’ (I wish you guys would use some kind of handle when posting anonymously) for this cartoon:
It was me. Sorry for forgetting to sign my post.
-AA
thanks for the hilarious cartoon!!
Welcome to the U.S.S.R. 2.0.
Putin has accomplished most of what he has wanted since he took power. Nationalization of the Oil & Gas industries, ousting of political and economic rivals (if not outright murder of them), restricted freedom of the press… all media is now state media, silenced (i.e. murdered) journalists who spoke out against Putin’s government and all in all, reversed any democratic reforms that may have been made over the last 20 years.
Additionally, Moscow having provoked the situation by giving passports to these two separatists regions to give the Russians the pretext that Georgians are attacking Russian citizens.
Did we suddenly forget the threats, attacks (cyber attacks to former Soviet republics), and economic muscle flexing (shutting off the oil to Europe)? This my friends, is the U.S.S.R. 2.0. What we are seeing in Georgia is another Afghanistan (the USSR one, not the current USA one). Does anyone remember Chechnya? Estonia?
Apparently is not OK for the Chechnyans to break away from Russia, but its ok for Ossetia and the other province to do so from Georgia… with overwhelming Russian support.
Russia has, and continues, to lie at every opportunity. On the surface they will talk, but actions speak louder than words. I believe a Russian defense minister said they had no plans to open up another front from the other province and did so just a few hours later. Lies lies lies, that’s all the Russians have given the rest of the world for over a 100 years.
Let us not also forget that Georgia is the only other oil pipeline that doesn’t run through Russia. Russia doesn’t want another NATO member on their border (i.e. Missile Shield State). And they don’t want to provide the U.S. with another avenue of access to the Middle East. So they have contrived this whole assault on Georgia to get what they want. For all the crap that the U.S. has done, I trust its intentions over those of Putin’s return to Soviet Russia any day. If Europe would wise up, they’d be throwing their support back into NATO. Cold War is back on, and if Russia isn’t careful, they will start a 3rd world war. Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and the Ukraine have already publicly showed their support for Georgia, and who knows how many other countries are silently offering their support. Good going Russia on embroiling the region in yet another global conflict.
Furthermore, before you start showing your support for Mother Russia, I will also remind you that the two breakaway regions are still internationally recognized as GEORGIAN TERRITORY.
While they may have declared their intention of separating and independence, they are not officially recognized by the international community as independent. The right of law is on the side of the Georgians.
Russia invaded a democratic, sovereign nation.