Gelion
Retired Captain
Yes of course. However US is behind training, supplying and planning for the invasion force, not to mention support of Sashkavili's regime itself
BBC has evidence of Georgian war crimes in S. Ossetia
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Yes of course. However US is behind training, supplying and planning for the invasion force, not to mention support of Sashkavili's regime itself
*sigh*... I'm not really getting into this, am I?
1. One can have a deliberate attempt at genocides/ethnic cleansing/war crimes without succeeding. It's like me pointing a gun to your face, saying "you die now", shooting, and you jumping out of the way at just the right time: technically, I've done nothing wrong.
2. The number was around 3000 when the invasion began. Let that sink in for a moment.
1. One can have a deliberate attempt at genocides/ethnic cleansing/war crimes without succeeding. It's like me pointing a gun to your face, saying "you die now", shooting, and you jumping out of the way at just the right time: technically, I've done nothing wrong.
2. The number was around 3000 when the invasion began. Let that sink in for a moment.
Western hypocrisy has no bounds.
Hezbollah and Israel has been pissing around the disputed border (Around the Sheba farms) for years. In response to soldier being captured. Israeli bombed much of the civilian infrastructure of Lebanon, causing billions of dollars worth of damage. Killed 1000 civilians and made another half a million flee their homes. As well as peppering the countryside with 350,000 unexploded cluster mines (So much for avoiding civilian casualties). For one guy. I didn't see anybody in the west talking about proportionality. In fact, the Americans diplomatically tried to prolong the conflict and gave Israel emergency shipments of bombs.
When Russia intervenes to stop Georgians murdering Ossetians, while doing relatively little damage to Georgia itself, every whines about the response being "Disproportionate".
The double standard is glaring.
Hezbollah and Israel has been pissing around the disputed border (Around the Sheba farms) for years. In response to soldier being captured. Israeli bombed much of the civilian infrastructure of Lebanon, causing billions of dollars worth of damage. Killed 1000 civilians and made another half a million flee their homes. As well as peppering the countryside with 350,000 unexploded cluster mines (So much for avoiding civilian casualties). For one guy. I didn't see anybody in the west talking about proportionality. In fact, the Americans diplomatically tried to prolong the conflict and gave Israel emergency shipments of bombs.
When Russia intervenes to stop Georgians murdering Ossetians, while doing relatively little damage to Georgia itself, every whines about the response being "Disproportionate".
The double standard is glaring.
Julian Delphiki
Anton's key
Israeli-Hezbollah conflict was widely condemned being out of bounds and damage inflicted to Georgia was in billions as well afaik.
NEXT!
Western attitude was not equal, however.
Billions? Total BS. They lost expensive military equipment and airbases. Relatively little civilian infrastructure was damaged, hardly on comparison to the massive destruction of Lebanese public infrastructure.
How does it compare to 1000 Lebanese dead? 500,000 refugees? 350,000 unexploded cluster mines? The United Nations Development Programme has estimated the cost at $5 Billion US (About 22% of GDP). It shrunk their economic growth from 6% to -5%. The Georgian PM has estimated the cost at 1 Billion (which itself is debatable), which most of which would be military equipment. The underlying infrastructure is fine. The economy is not being hurt by damage to the country but by investor confidence. Total and Epic Fail.
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