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The chickens have come home to roost in Georgia

Sep 02, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Much has been carried in the newspapers about the situation in Georgia in the Caucasus.
Almost all the reports, and even letters to the editor, have been putting forward the American and European Community’s viewpoint.

That is, that the action and the response of the Russian Federation have been entirely wrong, both morally and in contradiction to international law.

But there is a Russian viewpoint which gives the reason for their action, and which the media should carry in the interest of truth.

If there is a continued suppression of this other viewpoint, there could be no grasp of reality, and so no possibility of a solution.

Without trying to deal with the whole matter mentioning the West’s making a hostile military ring around Russia, for example, I point out the most important reason for the Russians’ response:

Earlier this year, the United States and the European Community turned their backs on international morality and law when they dismembered the small state of Serbia and established a new state of Kosovo.

They took a very bad risk, thinking they would be able to get away with it. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and the Russians have done what the EU and USA did earlier this year in the Balkans: They have simply done a Kosovo in the Georgian provinces of Ossetia and Afkazia.

Thus, when the world remembers Kosovo, the bleatings of the USA and EU sound very hollow. The lesson: Strictly obey international law. 

P. I. Peters

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