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Do Poles in Poland really feel betrayed because there won't be any US Shield? [288]
they did invade Georgia - they did destroy plenty of infrastructure there including parts of Tbilisi airstrip - what is this if not an invasion? they were in the Sukhumi port to destroy its facilities, including the times of when they were supposed to leave - they were as near as some 40 km from Tbilisi - Putin has great deal against Georgia being independant from Russia and a corridor to tranport crude or gas from Caspian fields -
if you compare America in Iraq and Russians in Georgia it's pretty much unjustified - Americans are there for the will of the Iraqi government - at the moment the withdrawal (though perhaps not so much as before) would mean chaos and perhaps civil war in Iraq - it was irresponsible to invade Iraq - but it would be equally irresponsible to leave it now just like that
then you've got Russians in Georgia (some couple of weeks occupation to allow destroying of infrastracture and looting by Ossetian militias)
international humanitarian commisions were never allowed into Ossetia with the claims by the Russians that the Georgians purposedly killed some 1000 of Ossetians - maybe it was true - but we will never for sure know cause Russians never allowed international observers in
I am not making a hero of Saakashvili - perhaps it is even justified to call him a war criminal - but so is Putin - violence is not the way to go - and actually Georgians should have let the Ossetians alone - Russia did not act to defend Ossetians but to destroy as much of Georgian potential as possible - not least in order to give the example to other post soviet countries in the area (Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan)
Russians are going to territories that strive for independence only where it suits them (it is their vital interest to destabilise Georgia so as to remain in the monopolist position of a gas provider to Europe (even if it is transit gas from Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan)
the same way you can say that Putin has nothing against Poland - he just doesn't like Poland to get in his way of building imperial Russia based on gas provider monopoly - that's why he needs to have ways of go round Poland with his pipelines so that Poland can be effectively blackmailed energetically into subservience
by the way the shield would be no counter-measure against Russian nuclear strategic forces - because of the nature of the shield - look for the technicalities to see why - Russians then threateden with deploying some rockets next to Polish border - it's just using a pretext - what Russia would lose in case of strict American-Polish cooperation is the potential to blackmail Poland into subservience and I believe it is one of their major politcal goals for the near future - though they need to deal with Ukraine first of course (next couple of years can see dramatic changes in the Ukraine)
