Is Russia returning to its Cold War behaviour through its actions against Georgia?
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keithold thanks all baggers
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Not to make light of the situation, but could you imagine if a guy in Atlanta, laying in some hospital bed in a coma since 1984, woke from his coma and the first thing he heard was the news reporting "Russia has invaded Georgia."
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Whether the conflict in Ossetia will turn into a full-out invasion of Georgia is yet to be seen. But whether or not you consider the alleged Russian attacks on Georgia a gesture back to Cold War-era imperialism, one thing is relatively certain: Whether this new wave of Russian aggression escalates to the point of an actual war depends very largely on the response from the Western world.
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Just curious. Is it not Georgia that has invaded Ossetia?
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We are waiting at the moment the Georgians have called a ceasefire and the French Minister is in Russia to talk to Putin but he is not making the right noises yet. We can only hope that Putin is not going to try to reclaim some of the lost parts of the old Soviet Union. A lot of them nOw belong to the EEC. Hey on a lighter note if he does reinvent the Soviet Union maybe we can send some of the Eastern European immigrants back.
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Russia has always been an imperialist nation. This should have been anticipated by all western powers. Next will be the Ukraine.
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No. It is starting a war. This is not a cold war. Putin knows the US will NOT do anything except talk. We have no threat other than words. The American Public will not allow anything either overt or covert in this situation. Good Bye Georgia as an country: back to the formation of the former USSR. Which little country is next??
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A cold war is basically two sides at loggerheads with no weapons being fired. Georgia and Russia could turn out to be a "proper" full scale war. One in which the USA won't be able to do anything about, because most of their soldiers are in Afghanistan or Iraq.
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During the Cold War period, which lasted from the mid-1940s until the end of the 1980s, international politics were heavily shaped by the intense rivalry between these two great blocs of power and the political ideologies they represented: democracy and capitalism in the case of the United States and its allies, and Communism in the case of the Soviet bloc. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569374/cold_war.html I think no. What Russia is doing now is an actual war, not just a war of ideologies.
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I don't think the behaviour is Cold War typical, the invasion seems justified (to me) given the History of Ossetia and the rest of Georgia. The russians are protecting people who would like to be included in the russian nation. Like Guam or the Phillipines with the U.S. right? Also, it seems clear to me that Russia is asserting itself to a nation that did not respect agreements made with them and Ossetians.
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the cold war has already started in the propaganda form. Georgia invaded South Ossetia and 98% of population there have a Russian passport. More than 2000 ppl have been killed including russian peacekeepers. i'm not in favor of some russian actions but the media portrayed the situation as an "unprovoced agressive russian attack" completely ignoring the number of ppl killed by the georgian troops. that is the beggining of cold war 2.
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Yes. A proper name for this could be 'The Empire Strikes Back.' When the world's eye was turned on the Olympic Games in Beijing, Russia had an ulterior motive. Russia invaded Georgia, marched right past S. Ossetia and attacked Tbilisi. George Bush immediately sent Secr. Rice to Tbilisi to diffuse some embarrassment he may receive from his calling Putin a good man in 2004. NATO, the very organization founded against the Soviet Union, warned Russia and Russia completely dismissed the warning. Despite peace terms, Russian troops remain in Georgia.
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I believe it is.
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