Dash Posted November 6, 2010 Posted November 6, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/world/europe/06georgia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Six pilots is a lot for Georgia's air force. Probably doesn't bode well for Batumi-Tblisi relations, as the spies were based in Adjaria.
RIPTIDE Posted November 6, 2010 Posted November 6, 2010 ... another group of people who want to cede from Georgia... add in ethnic Azeri's in the SOuth East. Mad Mike needs to go. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
vanir Posted November 11, 2010 Posted November 11, 2010 From my ignorance as an outsider I have followed the conflict a bit and did draw some impressions over the years, open to correction. They weren't the bad guys initially, Tblisi but never stood a chance so didn't play it very smartly. This isn't the Crimea breaking from Ukraine here, Russia will take care of its strategic districts one way or another and nobody is really going to have much say in it. I think when the CIS refined its mission statement in the late 90s the game was up for Tblisi, join or else. I remember when the Russian parliament told its military not to make any moves whilst new diplomacy was being invited but they completely ignored the order, scary times. Tblisi was told one thing by Russian diplomats and then the military went and did the opposite, I think that was a good time to realise there was no way this was going to end well.
Dash Posted November 12, 2010 Author Posted November 12, 2010 Pessimistic comments from Saakashvili on the state of things
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