Georgia
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Vestiges of war still present in S. Ossetia two years after conflict – RT Top Stories
South Ossetia is remembering the victims of the 2008 war with Georgia. Hundreds were killed and thousands displaced when Tbilisi attacked the republic with artillery and tanks two years ago. Continue reading
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“We did everything to avoid the war” — South Ossetian president
On the second anniversary of the war in South Ossetia, the country’s president, Eduard Kokoity, spoke exclusively to RT, sharing his experience of the conflict. He said South Ossetia was doing everything possible to avoid the worst scenario of events, but Georgia showed no signs of wrapping up the military operation against South Ossetia. Continue reading
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The US-NATO “Arc of War” Stretches From Afghanistan to the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus By Rick Rozoff
With Turkey increasingly adopting an independent foreign policy orientation not to Washington’s liking; with the nearly nine-year-old war in Afghanistan reaching its apex; with the U.S. and its NATO allies ramping up pressure on Iran in Azerbaijan’s rough neighborhood; and with the U.S. pursuing global interceptor missile plans that may include evicting the Russian military… Continue reading
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US-NATO versus Russia: Towards a Regional War in the Caucasus? By Eric Walberg
Georgia is eager for another war, but there are other fires there which refuse to die — Russia’s battles with terrorism and separatists and Azerbaijans bleeding wound in ethnic Armenian Nagorno Karabakh. Continue reading
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Georgia vs Russia: Fanning the flames By Eric Walberg
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world expected a new era of peace and disarmament. But what happened? Instead of diminishing, US and NATO presence throughout Europe, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Central Asia rapidly increased, and the world experienced one war after another — in the Caucasus, Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan, each… Continue reading
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America and Russia: Has the Cold War Really Ended? By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is approaching, but has the Cold War really ended and is it really a historic relic of the not too distant past? The Soviet Union may no longer exist and the Warsaw Pact may have long been dissolved, but many of the remnants of the… Continue reading
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Former Soviet States: Battleground For Global Domination By Rick Rozoff
A Europe united under the EU and especially NATO is to be strong enough to contain, isolate and increasingly confront Russia as the central component of U.S. plans for control of Eurasia and the world, but cannot be allowed to conduct an independent foreign policy, particularly in regard to Russia and the Middle East. Continue reading
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Global Warfare USA: The World is the Pentagon’s Oyster By Rick Rozoff
“Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze) and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups and six navy fleets that roam the world’s oceans and… Continue reading
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Video: US troops train Georgians for Afghan war
In Georgia, NATO-led military exercises are preparing the country’s troops to operate in Afghanistan. The FIRST Georgian soldiers head to the conflict zone within weeks. RT’s Irina Galushko looks at whether people’s lives are being used as a bargaining chip to join NATO. Continue reading
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ABC Of West’s Global Military Network: Afghanistan, Baltics, Caucasus By Rick Rozoff
The century’s longest war continues to rage in South Asia with no sign of abating. Instead, the invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 has exploded into endless armed hostilities that have spread across the length and breadth of the nation, with U.S. and NATO military forces fighting an intensified counterinsurgency conflict in the north,… Continue reading
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Great Power Confrontation in the Indian Ocean: The Geo-Politics of the Sri Lankan Civil War By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
The support and positions of various foreign governments in regards to the diabolic fighting between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan military, which cost the lives of thousands of innocent civilians, says a great deal about the geo-strategic interests of these foreign governments. The position of the governments of India and a group of states that can collectively… Continue reading
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Black Sea Crisis Deepens As US-NATO Threat To Iran Grows By Rick Rozoff
Tensions are mounting in the Black Sea with the threat of another conflict between U.S. and NATO client state Georgia and Russia as Washington is manifesting plans for possible military strikes against Iran in both word and deed. Continue reading
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Confronting Russia? U.S. Marines In The Caucasus By Rick Rozoff
U.S. Marines and Green Berets have become regular fixtures in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Kuwait and the Horn of Africa over the past decade. With the widening of the Afghan war they are soon to take up permanent residence in the capital of Pakistan, in the Caucasus, in the Black Sea region and the… Continue reading
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Russia and Georgia: Caucasian calculus By Eric Walberg
War clouds refuse to disperse a year after Georgia waged war against Russia. On the anniversary of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s ill-fated invasion of South Ossetia 8 August, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev warned: “Georgia does not stop threatening to restore its ‘territorial integrity’ by force. Armed forces are concentrated at the borders near Abkhazia and… Continue reading
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Yana AMELINA: Georgia: Russia Should Finish the Job
Currently Russia and Georgia are locked in a conflict tantamount to an unannounced war, and even a regime change in Tbilisi would not do for a recovery. The current political landscape has been created by serious mistakes made both by Tbilisi and by Russia, but the share of responsibility of the former is much greater… Continue reading
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