The perfect war
There are no saints in the former Soviet Union. Well none since Stalin made moves to rid the masses of their opiate. Before the Iron Curtain was torn down, a couple hundred tanks would roll from one part of the USSR to another part of the USSR and the world would barely sniff at it. Now that the stage is clear of the curtain the drama is set for the perfect war.
Why is the Russian/Georgian War perfect? (because three criteria are met).
1. An easily identifiable enemy
2. Victim is pitiful but not really cared about.
3. Location is remote and can only be accessed via a television remote.
The ongoing Shri-Lanka/Tamil war does not satisfy the criteria, Neither Shri-Lanka nor the Tamils are easily identifiable.
The Israel-Lebanon war did not satisfy criteria one and was not a perfect war. Israel though easily identifiable is not an enemy.
The Afghan war also cannot qualify because even though there are easily identifiable enemies (i.e. the Taliban), the victims, namely the poor boys fighting there, are cared about by constituency members.
Iraq has long lost sight of the 3 criteria because ever since the enemy became unrecognisable i.e. no Sadaam and ever since the victims became unrecognisable and ever since Iraq became a permanent American outpost in the Middle East there are no longer any criterias fullfilled.
The talking heads, their liberal instruments and pinko misinformation specialists can be heard loud and clear by what they are and are not saying.
Firstly Georgia deserves at least some punishment. Georgia was the attacker and therefore no talking head is saying the Russians should not have attacked but only that the attacks are going on for too long and are too extreem. “Cummon Ruskies! It is a game after all, you called our bluff now lets go back to the simmering tensions as we try to peel off your former bloc allies with bribes and lies.”
Masopher reported earlier of nato’s enlargement process and its strategic implications on destroying the former USSR.
This latest move was orchestrated with Nato and Washington at very least complicit with Georgia’s outrageous and brazen actions. While offering Georgia assurances of military support and moving (perhaps notional) American Soldiers into harms way, American trained and supplied troops were instructed to take a swipe at Russian interests and personell. Anything less than the extreem reaction would signal to the world that Russia is attackable, weak and filled with technocrats rather than strong leaders. With Putin’s attention turned inwards and Medvedev untested and scoffed at, the North Atlantic tricksters thought that Georgia’s win against Russia would be the real medal of the Olympics.
But even though I clearly support my “comrades” in the Kremlin I dont support them out of misguided alliance or ideology. In this case NATO played dirty pool setting up Georgian soldiers to die hoping that Russia would not call their bluff. If the local population of Ossetia and Georgia is driven into civil war the implications for NATO soft power is that it is as ineffective and badly planned as NATO hard power.
This is not about democracy or invasions. As soon as Georgia has been spanked soundly the tanks will get off their lawn. This matter is not so much about the oil running through Georgia or even the breaking apart of the old bear, it is a long strategic game of power and domination over Europe and the world. Oil prices have reacted as expected enriching Americans, Brits, Gulf emirs and Russians. News companies get to show bawling moms and burnt cars and rag on about democracy and dictators. Things will go on as normal except Nato (American) domination of Europe gets set back a decade or two.
Enemy vilified, inconsquential people die, news readership and television watchers get their dose of reality TV without having to experience reality. PERFECT!
Really insane and desperate move for Georgian President who now looks like the impotent puppet that he always was but I think it was also a BAD MOVE for NATO who apparently dont know where chess champions come from. Check and Mate!
August 18th, 2008 at 6:46 am #Drone
LOL.