I can't agree with you more Midnight Mike, lets be absolutely honest here Russia claimed that they lost 10 peacekeepers to Georgian troops who had opened fire at them first. (
which is absolutely true)
Russia loses roughly 80 people a day to traffic accidents. So was the response to open a full blown attack on Georgia disproportionate??? You bet, but Georgians (at least in the first 3 days) were actively bombing and killing people of South Osettia as well and it's still unclear which side had killed more peaceful citizens. :(
Russia and Russians feel like they are in a NATO cage, so they needed that provocation to show some teeth, and Georgia was dumb enough to hand it to them.
So my take on this is that Russia is like a big bear, might leave u alone if you don't touch it, but if you start pissing it off and annoying it, it will bite. And as we all know now, the outcomes are pretty gruesome.
P.S. The saddest part of this is the fact that majority of Georgians condemn their own Georgian president, because if he was smart and clever enough to not open fire first then you can beat 100% that Russia would never open fire or invade his country, as a result thousands of his own as well as russian people wouldn't get killed, and all of them would just live their peaceful mundane lives the same way they did before 08.08.2008.
It's sad that all of this had happened, especially during the Olympics....
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