What Mainstream U.S. Media and Politicians  Keep From Americans
About the Georgia Matter

U.S. media people, and White House politicians, have placed all the blame for Russia sending troops into Georgia upon Russia. And in the process, America’s politicians, media people, pundits acting as shills for those in control of the system, have even called for sending troops to Georgia. Unfortunately, even Senators John McCain and Barack Obama repeats this line. Of McCain, that is expected. And for Obama, he may not have any choice but to stay in lockstep with the prevailing view. The facts, however, are quite different, and easily confirmed by numerous American and foreign sources. Briefly, here is what happened:

·   The president of Georgia provoked a confrontation by invading South Ossetia on August 7, 2008. South Ossetia has functioned as an independent entity since the collapse of the Soviet Union, has a large percentage of Russians, and allied with Russia.

·   Georgia provoked Russia by seeking membership in NATO, obtaining large quantities of weapons, and conducting military exercises with the use of U.S. military advisors and personnel. The U.S. military involvement in Georgia would be like Russia conducting military exercises in Mexico, along the U.S.—Mexico border. And making Mexico a part of the world in which Russia would go to war if the U.S. attacked Mexico. 

·   The United States government surely knew Georgia was about to invade South Ossetia, and did nothing to stop the provocation. 

·   U.S. provocation by placing nuclear defense missiles in Czech Republic, near Russia, with the boldface lie that they are to protect Europe against missiles from Iran.

·   The U.S. intruded into another country bordering Russia, Ukraine, with the Orange Revolution. That was a CIA-funded operation into the internal affairs of Ukraine. The intent was to draw Ukraine into NATO, providing a further military threat to Russia.

·   Presidents H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton had promised Russia that there would be no attempt to expand NATO into any part of the former Soviet Union empire. That promise was then broken in 1998 by NATO’s  expansion to include Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. 

·   Russian, finding itself encircled by the military actions of the United States, did what the United States would have done if subject to the same type of provocation near U.S. borders. 

·   After the U.S. boxed itself into a corner, by secretly promising different countries that the U.S. would come to their aid, the U.S. then found itself powerless. Bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, without military forces, and in unprecedented financial debt and financial implosion,, it could do nothing. 

·   However, if war mongers like President George H.W. Bush or if Senator John McCain was president (or, horrors, Sarah Palin), it is probably that a military response would have occurred. 

·   And if the United States did act in that manner, the population of almost every major city in the United States could have been wiped out by the many thousands of nuclear missiles aimed at them by Russia. 

Unfortunately, Senator Obama had to recognize the standard line in the United States, and blame Russia for the Georgia problem. This is not to totally blame him, as he would have been immediately lambasted if he stated the true facts behind that matter.

The subject of Iran is also not as black and white as U.S. politicians and the U.S. lapdog media states. Another article appears on that matter. 

A Financial Times article (August 14, 2008), titled, “The West Shares the Blame for Georgia,” and stated:

The bloody conflict over South Ossetia teaches two lessons. The first is that Georgia will never now get South Ossetia and Abkhazia back. The second is for the west: it is not to make promises that it neither can, nor will, fulfils when push comes to shove.

Georgia will not get its separatist provinces back.  The populations and leaderships of these regions have repeatedly demonstrated their desire to separate from Georgia; and Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, made it clear again and again that Russia would fight to defend these regions if Georgian forces attacked them.

Western governments should exert pressure on Georgia to accept this solution. These governments have a duty to do this because they, and most especially the US, bear a considerable share of the responsibility for the Georgian assault on South Ossetia and deserve the humiliation they are now suffering.

The Bush administration, with the full support of the US Congress, armed, trained and overwhelmingly financed the Georgian military. It did this although the dangers of war involving these forces were obvious and after the Georgian government had told its own people that these forces were intended for the recovery of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Bush administration, backed by Congress, Republican presidential candidate John McCain and most of the US media also adopted a highly uncritical attitude to bother the undemocratic and the chauvinist aspects of the Saakashvili administration and its growing resemblance to that of the crazed nationalist leader, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, in the early 1990s.

Instead, according to European officials, the Bush administration even put heavy pressure on US and international monitoring groups not to condemn flagrant abuses by Mr. Saakashvili’s supporters during the last Georgian elections. Ossete and Abkhaz concerns were ignored, and the origins of the conflict were often wittingly or unwittingly falsified in accordance with Georgian propaganda.

Finally, and most importantly, the US pushed strongly for a NATO membership action plan for Georgia at the last alliance summit and wold have achieved this if France and Germany had not resisted strongly.

Given all this, it was not wholly unreasonable of Mr. Saakashvili to assume that if he started a war with Russia and was defeated, the US would come to his aid.