“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”
The words of Thomas Jefferson ring true today. America’s best course of action is to do nothing and let Europe Asia handle their own affairs. Here on our side of the world we are free from conflict–the only time America has ever been attacked by foreigners in any recent history was on September 11, 2001–an attack that was nothing more than a backlash against American foreign policy over the past 60 years.
America’s role in the Georgian-Russian conflict should be to do nothing. Right now that is not the case. The United States government is already using American taxpayer money to send Georgian troops back to Georgia to fight the Russians. There is rumor that the United States (and Israel) have been helping the Georgian military prepare for this conflict for months. The US government’s hands are dirty again.
What is the reason for this war? It isn’t Russian aggression as the media tries to portray it. As Justin Raimondo points out, Georgia is the real aggressor. This 2007 article by the Tiraspol Times states that
Georgia is preparing for a US-financed war against Abkhazia and South Ossetia. That is what the country’s military build-up reveals, according to a leading journalist and political analyst from Geneva. Since the current regime took power, Georgian military spending has effectively increased by over forty times and now has the highest growth-rate of any country in the world.
The real aggressor is Georgia. They have prepared to keep the province of Southern Ossetia from seceding by use of military force. Russia is intent on Southern Ossetia being a free and independent state (or, at the very least, a part of Russia and not of Georgia). The Russians are tired of the Georgians ethnically cleansing people in the area as well as their military buildup and (scary) worship of the United States.
Georgia’s prisons are full of political opponents and people accused of treason by government officials scared for the truth to be known. Russia is simply defending its citizenry that resides in Southern Ossetia as well as protecting the independent state of Ossetia from Georgian tyranny.
The Western media is ready to make Russia out to be the same old bad guy it was during the Soviet years–but it is not. Many of those people are dead and few want to bring it back. Russia is not waging a war of imperialism against sovereign nations, it is simply protecting its interests and defending against Georgian aggression.
When the Mexicans attacked America many years ago, the Americans gathered an army together, pushed into Mexico City, toppled the government, and then left. Georgia might get the same treatment from Russia if Putin wakes up on the wrong side of the bed. For now, though, Russia is in the right and Georgia is in the wrong. There is no way around it. America should stay out of this war and not give comfort to Georgia or Russia. We have no interest in this affair and it does not concern us. To put our nose where it doesn’t belong is only asking for trouble.
Filed under: Geopolitics, Politics | Tagged: Georgia, russia
