While I stand by yesterday’s post that initial media reporting on the Russia/Georgia fighting was rather one-sided, it seems that Russia has now gone beyond simply “protecting the South Ossetians”. As BBC News reports, Western leaders are increasingly worried that Russia is now outright invading Georgia - and it seems they aren’t quite sure what to do to stop it and the potential chaos it could unleash. They had the benefit of the doubt at first, but now Russia’s brazen push deeper into Georgia proper raises worrying questions about how far the country will go to “protect”, regain and hold the territory of a neighbouring country which they’ve long wanted back.

Posted Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 @ 1:22 am
Filed in human rights, politics

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