In 1991 the Warsaw Pact dissolved. In my ignorance, I wondered why NATO didn't likewise dissolve. What was the point of this Military/Industrial alliance that now bordered an area that was sure to become a hotbed of ethnical, religious and regional uprisings? Recall the famous Article 5 (invoked for the first time ever after 9/11) of NATO that each nation within accepts that an attack on any NATO member is an attack on all.
But as F William Engdahl has put so well, "Washington has steadily converted NATO into what can only be called the military vehicle of an American global imperial rule, linked by a network of military bases from Kosovo to Poland to Turkey to Iraq and Afghanistan.". Enter Georgia.
The current regime in Georgia does not appear to me as a democratic wannbe, at all. As usual, we installed the Harvard trained Saakashvilli. Does the term Blowback mean anything anymore?
This doesn't look like a flowering democracy either. Saakashvilli Shutting down opposition run TV on Nov. 7th (partly owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp )and unleashing police on protesters.
It was Georgia that attempted to "retake" South Ossetia, a Self proclaimed independent province since the early 1990's on August 8th, 2008. I guess claiming independance only counts if your siding with this Empire.
This fighting is your tax dollars at work, mind you as American military personel are on the ground (Here and here) "training" Georgian troops for what just might be an American agenda to force the issue with Russia. Except Russia pulled the punk card. Interesting that field excercises in July of 08' never included this 400 man unit, which was busy in Iraq. Surely US intel was screaming that the Russians were ready to pounce. Guess it ain't easy being the Empire's proxy in the wider war that Trotskyites in the US just can't get enough of.
Is this how the American Empire avoids the draft? No wonder so many nations oppose Georgia's entrance into NATO.
That's not to say that I'm all about Russia. According to AEI institute fellows that I watched on C-Span last night, Russia has been amassing troops and armor on Georgia's border for over a year and may have some well placed spies within Georgia's ruling elite. I agreed that to respond so quickly and effectively, less than 24 hours of Georgia's attacks on South Ossetia, meant long term planning.
It appears to me that Russia has rather swiftly neutered a potential NATO advesary and definite American Sattelite (since 2002) and did so without regime change.
But my biggest gripe is the coverage. Once again we are ill-informed and despite 24hr news coverage in the US, have only tidbits, seconds really, of cold hard facts followed by 30 minutes of pundit spin and presidential candidate leveraging.
I found this post here most informative, reminding me yet again why network and cable news isn't worth the effort to lift the remote.
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