Mauzeris wrote:The hypocrisy is strong with this one. A mere five years ago it took Russia about five hours to decide and invade a sovereign country without any sort of UN authorization and approval.
What hypocrisy? Georgia had seccessionist troubles in pro-Russian territories. Georgia decided to solve them through a policy of ethnic cleansing, occupation and genocide. Russia actually has autonomous Abkhazian and Ossetian oblasts in its federation. Russia had no reason to have their Ossetian citizens watch their brethren in Georgia be massacred, and
rightly chose not to and guaranteed the security of the Abkhazians and Ossetians.
The situation in Georgia remained tense for basically two decades: Georgia attempted to join NATO as part of America's
strangle Russia military policy, to ensure Western military cover for their genocide. Immediately after achieving a preliminary agreement with the West, Georgia started their genocidal campaign with an egregious war crime: Specifically, perfidy. Georgia declared a unilateral ceasefire (with the intent to deeceive) to in order to immediately escalate the conflict without warning and invade the entire region. Seriously, Yanks: If Pearl Harbor wasn't aight, Georgia's attack wasn't neither.
Russia was clearly not amused, and intervened to prevent it. And let's be fair: It was a fairly limited intervention. The Russians enforced the Ossetian people's right to self-determination and that's about it. Georgia was not occupied, the regime wasn't toppled, there wasn't a strategic plan to bomb Georgia back into the stone age or to cause particular devastation other than required to achieve the war goals... It was fairly neat, far neater than any intervention the West has ever pulled.
I don't think Russia's policy of guaranteeing the security of certain minorities in the Caucasus or Central Asia is comparable to the West's fairly gratuitous blood for oil adventures in the middle east, or the regime changes that America is so fond of in order to further a right-wing hegemony all over the globe.