The International Georgian Conspiracy
by Skip Pulley
To better understand the lies we are now being told about Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, China and Cuba, one should more closely examine the 9-day conflict in the summer of 2008 in which the Russians handed the US/UK/Israeli/Turkish-backed puppet-government proxy state of Georgia a complimentary and symbolic ass-whooping.
There is
no actual “free” press in the US, although we are led to believe
otherwise. As a result, my research into the Russo-Georgian conflict
using global independent media sources has revealed a massive plot by
the US and Israel to wage war on Georgian progressives who were being
recognized by Russia as “independent” citizens in “open”
cities near the Black Sea. This plan was set in motion to coincide
with the Olympic Games to divert any skeptical free thinkers who
would question the validity of such an “unprovoked” attack. The
idea of a conspiracy is not far-fetched; the Georgian Special Forces
trained in the US, In addition, “Blackwater” and “Mossad” personnel were
reportedly present during the fighting. From the moment Georgia
launched a surprise attack on a Russian peacekeeping force in the
tiny breakaway region of South Ossetia on August 8, 2008 prompting a
fierce Russian counterattack, Israel and the US have been trying to
distance themselves from the conflict. This is understandable: with
Georgian forces in retreat, large numbers of civilians killed and
injured, and Russia's fury unabated, the US and Israel's deep
involvement is severely embarrassing. The collapse of the Georgian
offensive represents not only a disaster for Georgia and its
US-backed leaders, but another blow to the myth of Israel's supposed military
invincibility. Worse, Israel fears that Russia could retaliate by
stepping up its military assistance to Israel's adversaries, including
Iran. So the big question is why the US and Israel have an interest
in Georgian politics?
The
Baku-T’bilisi-Ceyhan or “BTC” pipeline was built with the
intention of carrying oil from the Caspian to the Mediterranean Sea
for shipment to the West. The pipeline does not adhere to any formal
environmental standards and has been a source of social and political
conflicts across Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey for the past 20
years. Financiers (mainly US & Israeli corporations) were
criticized for their lack of monitoring the construction of the
project, which facilitated a conflict between Russia and Georgia over
Chechen rebels sheltering in the Pankisi gorge. Former Russian
President Vladimir Putin's announcement that Russia had considered
sending troops into Georgian territory to flush them out came just
before of the official start of construction of the BTC pipeline. In
part, Moscow’s saber-rattling could have been interpreted as an
attempt to focus global attention on the construction of the
pipeline.
As the
entire Caucus region tries to recover from the war that erupted over
South Ossetia, questions are being asked as to how the conflict
started on the night of August 7-8. Everyone agrees that the Georgian
army launched an attack at 11.30 pm that night. The key question is
to what degree the Georgians were facing a direct threat. The
outbreak of full-scale war on August 8 had been preceded by several
weeks of skirmishing in South Ossetia. In the first few days of
August, many families evacuated their children from Tskhinvali as the
fighting intensified. When the first television pictures were shown
of Ossetian civilians leaving the area, Georgian officials responded
angrily, saying that it was a sign South Ossetia was gearing up for a
war. The Ossetians put pressure on the Georgians to return to
negotiations under the multi-lateral Joint Control Commission, which
includes the Russians but the Georgians said they wanted to have
direct talks with the Ossetian side. Several people died in the first
days of August. Manana Magradze, now a refugee from Georgian village
Nikozi near Tskhinvali, told IWPR, “There wasn’t a single quiet
day in August. We would wake up to the sound of explosions or shots.
Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had accused unnamed US figures of
provoking the Georgian conflict to influence their forthcoming
presidential election, as Moscow slipped deeper into diplomatic
isolation over its recognition of independence for South Ossetia and
Abkhazia. China and four of Russia’s closest Central Asian allies
refused to endorse the decision to recognize independence for the
breakaway State. “It is not just that the American side could not
restrain the Georgian leadership from this criminal act. The American
side in effect armed and trained the Georgian army,” Mr. Putin said
in a television interview. “The suspicion arises that someone in
the United States especially created this conflict with the aim of
making the situation more tense and creating a competitive advantage
for one of the candidates fighting for the US presidency.” Most
analysts agreed that a “prolonged international crisis” would
favor Republican candidate John McCain over younger Democrat Barak
Obama because of McCain’s “experience”. Russian troops still
hold positions well inside Georgia, after they crushed Tbilisi's
attempt to regain control of South Ossetia. Georgia called the
Russian actions an invasion, while Moscow says it was only protecting
its citizens, having given most South Ossetians and Abkhaz passports.
At least several hundred people were killed and tens of thousands
displaced by the fighting. Although NATO has denied massing warships
in the Black Sea in response to the conflict, Russians claim that 18
of its vessels were in the region or on the way there.
I think it
is very difficult to know with any certainty what happened exactly,
but we can draw inferences from the results. According to the South
Ossetian Interior Ministry, on August 7 Georgia started ground fire
and shelling of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali from the
village of Nikozi. Then, according to Tskhinvali, the shelling and
shooting at the South Ossetian village of Khetagurovo started from
the Georgian village of Avnevi. About 10 people were killed and
another 50 received various wounds. The Georgian media, however,
reported that the South Ossetian side had been shelling the Georgian
villages of Avnevi and Nuli for three hours. According to the
information of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces in the conflict zone, it
was the Georgian side that started firing first. Also, there were
verified reports that Russian peacekeepers were fired on. On August 8
Georgia started military operations in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict
zone. This blatant attempt to vilify the Russian community was part
of a bigger conspiracy to promote unrest in the region to boost oil
profits for the Financiers of the BTC pipeline and to provide an
excuse for military intervention by NATO, very similar to that which
occurred in Bosnia.
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Skip Pulley
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