Comments for Why support Georgia? http://www.lithchat.com/joomla/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:10:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.lithchat.com/joomla//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=2#pc_125 Moacir, you forget that Barack Obama, Senator Joseph Biden, and other Democrats support Georgia and have condemned Russian aggression. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has also indicated her support, as has the government of the UK, the NATO Secretary General and others. The reason Lithuania is supporting Georgia is because the Putin-Medvedev government is a very real threat to Lithuania. Whatever the faults of Georgia\'s president, Georgia is not and, furthermore, is rightfully seen as a bellwether for Russia\'s relations with the successor states of the USSR. As for the Ossetians, Russia is plainly using them as a tool and pretext to reassert itself in a neighboring country. Lithuania and other states in similar positions are justifiably concerned that Russia could deploy similar arguments in justifying an \"intervention\" in pretty much any former Soviet Republic and, so, are justified in taking steps to protect themselves, including, at minimum, expressing moral support for Georgia as it faced what seemed to be an imminent occupation and removal of its government. You also neglect to mention (and, perhaps, consider) that Ossetian forces were shelling Georgian villages repeatedly in the run-up to Georgia\'s decision to try and gain control. I wonder what you would have suggested Georgia do in this case other than what it actually did. In fact, I think it was Russia that committed the greater strategic blunder in Georgia in the way that it handled itself. For more on this, see my latest [url]http://www.alfa.lt/straipsnis/c85098[/url]. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:24:58 +0100 http://www.lithchat.com/joomla//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=2#pc_126 Well said Dariau. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:23:00 +0100 http://www.lithchat.com/joomla//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=2#pc_154 This is part of Jacinto history that should be preserved forever. Back in college my friends used to freestyle rap at parties. buy wow gold : http://www.newmmoshop.com/ Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:11:43 +0100