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Yes, Georgia invaded South Ossetia. It's incredible how often this incident is twisted to portray the Russians as aggressors.
by lmg643 13y ago
Yes, Georgia invaded South Ossetia. It's incredible how often this incident is twisted to portray the Russians as aggressors.
- jnbiche 13y agoYes, because Russia has never displayed any aggression in the Caucasus.
- lostlogin 13y agoNot that others are without fault here. We commentate the day here in New Zealand that a load of our troops went into the Caucuses. The deaths of New Zealand troops was somehow nation forming. There are those that see glory in killing nearly 3,000 young men and wounding nearly 5,000 on some grotty strip of coast that is about as far from home as its possible to get.
- jnbiche 13y agoJust a point of fact: Gallipoli is far from the Caucasus (indeed, Greece is just as close to the Caucasus). And I'm not sure I understand how the unfortunate slaughter of the ANZAC corps in WWI plays any role in the bloody ethnic conflicts that flare up regularly in the Caucasus, fueled by Russia's imperial ambitions.
- lostlogin 13y agoIt was the key part of the campaign to exert pressure on the Caucasus as there wasn't really any other way. But your right, it isn't a great example, it was the local connection (NZ) that got me there (we had Britain rather than the US as the master back then). However my point was that it isn't just the Russians who have had imperial ambitions there.