[QUOTE=Bitores]Okay. When mass groups of foreign citizens are part of an organized rebellion against a government, and the military comes in to quell the rebellion in the interest of maintaining peace, that's still no reason to launch an invasion. [/QUOTE]
I don't think bombing is quelling a rebellion, that's called killing.
[QUOTE=Thlis]I don't think bombing is quelling a rebellion, that's called killing.[/QUOTE]
But when you bomb a military base, we call it liberating the oppressed South Ossetians.
Stop derailing the thread, needs more pictures and information on military movements.
[QUOTE=angelangelv3]So what's the status now? Heavy fighting between Russian "peacekeeper" forces and Georgians?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7550354.stm[/url]
Footage of great mother russia's armoured division rolling in to destroy the evil GEORGE
ENEMY
BMP
"200"
ENEMY
T72
"400"
MAN DOWN
*static*
[QUOTE=angelangelv3]Stop derailing the thread, needs more pictures and information on military movements.[/QUOTE]
All the info has really been gone through right now.
There's no minute by minute coverage here.
[QUOTE=Bitores]That doesn't change the fact that there are a thousand better ways to do it.[/QUOTE]
Suggest one?
:raise:
You have your citizens dieing every minute, how else can you save them?
"Dear President of Georgia, Please stop"
How likely is that to work fast enough?
[QUOTE=Thlis]I don't think bombing is quelling a rebellion, that's called killing.[/QUOTE]
Like I said, both sides committed war crimes, both sides shouldn't have done what they did. But Medvedev could have been the bigger man, and striven for a solution that wouldn't throw the region to the brink of war.
Russia had no other choice.
Also, this should be moved to GD.
[QUOTE=Dr_Chippay]But when you bomb a military base, we call it liberating the oppressed South Ossetians.[/QUOTE]
There is a difference between civilian buildings and military bases.
Military bases are meant to be blown up.
Anyone else notice Russia started to go down hill ever since Putin came into power?
[QUOTE=angelangelv3]Anyone else notice Russia started to go down hill ever since Putin came into power?[/QUOTE]
More like uphill.
They're starting to act like America(war on terror/drugs).
[QUOTE=Toline]Russia had no other choice.[/QUOTE]
That's highly debatable.
[QUOTE=Thlis]Suggest one?
:raise:
You have your citizens dieing every minute, how else can you save them?
"Dear President of Georgia, Please stop"
How likely is that to work fast enough?[/QUOTE]
I don't know, calling in the United Nations? Asking for foreign help? Not sending tanks over the border? Not acting aggressively, thereby provoking further violence? Not throwing shit around? Calling a ceasefire? Not entering a political dick waggling contest? Maybe committing to pulling out citizens, more than striking back?
[QUOTE=Toline]More like uphill.[/QUOTE]
Well if you look at it from inside Russia as a power hungry general. :v:
[QUOTE=angelangelv3]Anyone else notice Russia started to go down hill ever since Putin came into power?[/QUOTE]
From which point in time.
From CCCP or from over 15 years?
[QUOTE=angelangelv3]Anyone else notice Russia started to go down hill ever since Putin came into power?[/QUOTE]
Russia's been booming ever since Putin came to power.
[QUOTE=angelangelv3]Well if you look at it from inside Russia as a power hungry general. :v:[/QUOTE]
Crime in Russia has dropped so far people are now going up to their fellow citizens and giving them [b]their[/b] stuff.
[QUOTE=Toline]Russia had no other choice.
Also, this should be moved to GD.[/QUOTE]
Agreed on both counts.
[QUOTE=Bitores]I don't know, calling in the United Nations? Asking for foreign help? Not sending tanks over the border? Not acting aggressively, thereby provoking further violence? Not throwing shit around? Calling a ceasefire? Not entering a political dick waggling contest? Maybe committing to pulling out citizens, more than striking back?[/QUOTE]
Foreign help is military help.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Ryan]Russia's been booming ever since Putin came to power.[/QUOTE]
Down hill as in it's military and how it might be bad for the rest of the world kinda down hill. :downs:
Don't shoot me. :(
[QUOTE=angelangelv3]Anyone else notice Russia started to go down hill ever since Putin came into power?[/QUOTE]
Not Really, after all he isn't the President anymore.
[QUOTE=Bitores]I don't know, calling in the United Nations? Asking for foreign help? Not sending tanks over the border? Not acting aggressively, thereby provoking further violence? Not throwing shit around? Calling a ceasefire? Not entering a political dick waggling contest? [b]Maybe committing to pulling out citizens, more than striking back?[/b][/QUOTE]
That's why they entered Georgia, not to overthrow Georgia.
[QUOTE=Toline]Crime in Russia has dropped so far people are now going up to their fellow citizens and giving them [b]their[/b] stuff.[/QUOTE]
Unless they're not white.
In which case they get beat up in the subway.
:v:
[QUOTE=lurgic]Not Really, after all he isn't the President anymore.[/QUOTE]
He's still the Prime Minister.
[QUOTE=angelangelv3]Down hill as in it's military and how it might be bad for the rest of the world kinda down hill. :downs:
Don't shoot me. :([/QUOTE]
Military as in it's actions or it's weapons?
[QUOTE=angelangelv3]Well if you look at it from inside Russia as a power hungry general. :v:[/QUOTE]
More like a business man.
[QUOTE=angelangelv3]He's still the Prime Minister.[/QUOTE]
He mixed the two greatest things, the UK and the US.
[QUOTE=Toline]He mixed the two greatest things, the UK and the US.[/QUOTE]
Only one of those two is great.
[QUOTE=Toline]He mixed the two greatest things, the UK and the US.[/QUOTE]
He forged it through the radiation of Chernobyl.
[QUOTE=Toline]He mixed the two greatest things, the UK and the US.[/QUOTE]
Only instead of mixing the political systems in two countries who put a man who is basically his puppet into power and made his own little office where he could still have power.
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