Being isolated brings objectivity. You know more but you're so biased that you automatically assume everything is Russia's fault. To me it looks like Georgia started off this conflict with a surprise attack and Russia committed the awful crime of being prepared.
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The fact is that uninformed propaganda-eating Western pseudo-intellectuals simply want to ignore the opinion of people who know what they're talking about, having experienced it themselves, so they come up with all this crap about them beeing "crazy easterners".
Prejudice and ignorance describe it the best.
You in particular are a perfect example. You ignore all the years and years of Russian pressure against Georgia, you ignore that the Russians have violated all the agreements they now claim to be enforcing by sending heavy military equipment to the area prior to any major escalation, you ignore the fact that Russia reacted within about 12 hours, which means their troops had to be mobilized and given the order prior to the Georgian actions in South Ossetia.
You ignore everything that shows that Russia is most probably behind all this. You ignore that they have all the reasons to want to crush the pro-Western regime in strategically important part of Caucasus and assume full control of the oil/gas transit routes to Europe.
Europe is afraid of being dependant on the Russian gas too much. Well, the Russians know that and they're working hard to take control of all alternate sources, so they could become the sole major suppliers. Then the Western European governments would be made even more docile than they're now. And some people in the Western Europe seem to be perfectly happy with that. That's not an ignorance anymore, that's pure insanity.
Of course the Western ideals went down the toilet days ago. Russians are obviously still allowed to bully small countries in their neigbourhood and the enlightened Westerners won't move a finger.
That's just pathetic and perverse.
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