Putin's NU-Soviets

The war that is now raging in the Republic of Georgia is the latest example of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Nu-Soviet expansion. One can argue that President Saakashvili of Georgia bit off a bit more than he could chew with his assault on the South Ossetian separatists.

Observers have been all over the web accusing Georgia of attacking first and deserve everything they are getting. There is one small problem with that argument. South Ossetia is a part of Georgia and not a part of Russia. The Russians have given the vast majority of the South Ossetians Russian citizenship as a way of providing an excuse to intervene on these new Russians behalf.

When Georgia attempted to regain control of their own territory from the separatists it gave Russia the excuse it needed to invade. If you have not been keeping up with the politics in this area of the world, let me update you a bit. The Republic of Georgia has been a democracy ever since the non-violent Rose revolution in 2003 that saw the exit of Eduard Shevardnadze, former Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union.

Georgia has been a thorn is the side of Russia ever since with their aspirations of joining NATO and the EU. Putin has viewed Georgia and the Ukrainians ambitions of joining NATO as a threat to his sphere of influence. He maybe right, but with the history of Russian empirical lust, containment is good medicine for that lust.

For those of you that think Georgia is the instigator in this mess, just remember that Russia has been violating Georgian airspace with MiGs and launching wayward missiles into a democratic Georgia for the past year. Russia cut off natural gas supplies to Georgia during a brutal winter and they fund and arm the South Ossetian separatists in their quest to leave Georgia. The NU-Soviets are on the rise and they must be stopped now!

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