Ex-fetus: “I just hope the Ukrain and the Baltic states learn from this and immediately expel all persons holding a Russian passport. Tomorrow. Pick them up, take them to the border and send them across.”

Good idea. Right thing to do.
But unfortunately unrealistic.
Why?
You just can’t imagine what howling would arise from EU about “violation of basic human rights”, if you try to evict the Russian Fifth column.

Seems, that we in Latvia will have to wait till Russian tanks invade Baltic states (as they once already did in 1940) and then look at EU “being sensible” and “building constructive dialog” with Russians. The only hope is our NATO membership, but at the moment it seems more like decoration.

Another way for us to act would be to abandon any links to the West and willingly return to Mother Russia. As they say – “Better horrible end then horror without end”. Then Ukrainians and Balts will take places behind controls in Russian tanks looking Westwards, Russians will install nuclear missiles in their old Soviet missile bases, now abandoned, Russian Navy and Air Force will return to their old bases. The next step will be getting the rest of Eastern Europe under the boot, and that will be increasingly easier as it goes.

Well, I am surprised by childish naiveté of many so called “experts on Russia” talking about “alarmist anti-Russian” rhetoric etc. Possible reason for that is that they actually do not understand a hack of what they are talking about. Well marketed fools, if you ask my opinion…

http://mamarussianbear.blogspot.com/2008/09/forty-days-of-mourning-church-services.html

Sorry, this is false, fewer than 45 countries have recognized Kosovo’s independence, and this excludes India, China and Russia – or basically, two governments representing 1/4th of humanity.

And you are also wrong about other facts – the UN recognized Serbia as a member state and the successor state to the Republic of Yugoslavia, just as Russia inherited the USSR’s seat on the Security Council. The UN resolution that authorized the presence of NATO ground troops in Kosovo (just as the UN also recognized the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq post-hoc) declared that Kosovo was an autonomous part of Serbia. How exactly is that different from the status the Russians originally proposed for South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which Saakashvili rejected, upon U.S. advice?

The U.S. also urged the leaders of Moldova to reject a proposed deal to resolve the TransDniestr crisis because it would have involved them renouncing foreign troops (read: NATO members) on their soil. This was according to that notorious group of Kremlin shills at the Nixon Center in Washington D.C., which publishes The National Interest magazine.

As for a Chinese takeover of Russia, I wasn’t talking about the direct use of military force, as made clear by the remark “hostile takeover”. Russia still has thousands of nuclear warheads, and this is why China is going to be smart about it, and not follow the failed route of Hitler and Napoleon. Think demographic conquest without firing a shot over forty years. And idiots like Kim Zigfeld wish the Russians would just die off already, as if the Chinese will show less greed for all those natural resources we want to get our hands on…

“New World Order crowd that is using Georgia as another pawn to soften Russia up for their eventual hostile takeover by our Chinese friends (more troops on NATO border means less in the Far East)…seriously, get a grip.”
I’ll get a grip if you promise to release the one you have on that pipe.
China is as much of a paper Dragon as Russia is a cardboard Bear. Neither one could fight their way out of a paper bag.
Russia uses conscripts and obsolete Soviet equipment from the late cold war period. Chinese uses conscripts and cheap copies of that obsolete Soviet Equipment. China could no more take over Russia then Canada could take over the USA.

“And yes, by treaty, and by the United Nations own resolutions, Kosovo always remained an integral part of Serbia, and previously, the Republic of Yugoslavia.”
This is a bald faced lie. There was NO nation called Serbia after WW2. Since there was no Nation called Serbia When the UN was created, it could not be a member of the United Nations. Period.
Serbia, along with Kosovo, was PART of Yugoslavia. Kosovo hasn’t been part of Serbia since the last time Serbia existed as a state, which was about 6 or 7 centuries ago.
What the UN ( United Nations) did was recognize that Yugoslavia was now several independent nations, One of which was Serbia, and one of which was Kosovo. The Serbs just got their nose out of joint because they tried to grab most of Yugoslavia for themselves when it broke up and NATO and the UN wouldn’t let them.
What’s important here is that Kosovo is NOT analogous with S. Osseteria, Since the UN has recognized Kosovo as a sovereign nation, while S. Ossetia will NEVER be seen as anything except a Russian pawn.
So, Mr. Fudd, should I explain this version of the Bush Doctrine tp you and why protecting fledgling democracies from corrupt Tyrants like Pootie is more important then GM, Ford or Chrysler?

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Again, whether or not Russia “started it” is ultimately irrelevant to whether American boys and billions in dollars we don’t have right now ought to be sent to Georgia or not. Why is bailing out Saakashvili our problem, while we’re bailing out GM, Ford and Chrysler? If asking such inconvenient questions for the likes of Randy Scheunemann ($800k from lobbying for Georgia in the last two years) makes me a Kremlin apologist, then I’m Elmer Fudd, and Kim Zigfeld is Minnie Mouse.