Author Topic: Russia invades Georgia (The country, not the U.S. State) (Read 9031 times)

Ganhyun · « **on:** August 08, 2008, 11:18:50 AM »

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/08/georgia.ossetia/index.html

ShogunOfFear · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:20:40 AM »

Fuck shit just got real. Why so serious Russia? Guess we better deploy those missile defense shields.

Ganhyun · « **Reply #2 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:21:06 AM »

COD6 confirmed?

ShogunOfFear · « **Reply #3 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:21:41 AM »

Quote from: Ganhyun on August 08, 2008, 11:21:06 AM

COD6 confirmed?

They are pissed COD5 went back to WW2 so they start WW3 instead.

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #4 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:22:37 AM »

Russia shouldn't have ever let it break away in the first place in the 1990s.

One big honking country > federation of shitty states. FACT.

Bloodwake · « **Reply #5 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:27:56 AM »

Well, it looks like Russia is trying to stop ethnic cleansing, something the United States has never done in Africa. Although I guess everyone sorta helped stop it in Germany during WWII

Eric P · « **Reply #6 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:28:09 AM »

Quote from: Fragamemnon on August 08, 2008, 11:22:37 AM

Russia shouldn't have ever let it break away in the first place in the 1990s.

One big honking country > federation of shitty states. FACT.

china

bagofeyes · « **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:35:03 AM »

Better than the olympics. I'm going for Russia.

duckman2000 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:36:07 AM »

Well, I wouldn't necessarily believe everything that comes out of the Georgian president's mouth right now.

This, though, is just plain hilarious.

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Britain and the United States also urged all sides to bring an immediate end to the violence.
"The U.S. has been in discussions for many months with all parties to find a peaceful resolution," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe. "We urge all sides to refrain from violence and to begin direct talks."

I really don't think this particular couple should be pointing any fingers when it comes to choosing armed conflict over diplomacy.

Powerslave · « **Reply #9 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:40:20 AM »

Is Giorgio Moroder from Georgia

Tauntaun · « **Reply #10 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:41:37 AM »

I wonder how this will turn out.

ShogunOfFear · « **Reply #11 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:45:53 AM »

Quote

This, though, is just plain hilarious.

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Britain and the United States also urged all sides to bring an immediate end to the violence.
"The U.S. has been in discussions for many months with all parties to find a peaceful resolution," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe. "We urge all sides to refrain from violence and to begin direct talks."

I really don't think this particular couple should be pointing any fingers when it comes to choosing armed conflict over diplomacy.

True but two wrongs don't make a right. Russia should have avoided this IMO, but hey they are setting on all that money and those guns. Guess they needed to test them on someone. Other eastern european countries already see Russia as being agressive this will only raise those tensions/fears.

Ganhyun · « **Reply #12 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:47:10 AM »

Quote from: ShogunOfFear on August 08, 2008, 11:45:53 AM

This, though, is just plain hilarious.

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Britain and the United States also urged all sides to bring an immediate end to the violence.
"The U.S. has been in discussions for many months with all parties to find a peaceful resolution," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe. "We urge all sides to refrain from violence and to begin direct talks."

I really don't think this particular couple should be pointing any fingers when it comes to choosing armed conflict over diplomacy.

True but two wrongs don't make a right. Russia should have avoided this IMO, but hey they are setting on all that money and those guns. Guess they needed to test them on someone. Other eastern european countries already see Russia as being agressive this will only raise those tensions/fears.
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Next thing you know they'll want nukes instead of a missle defense shield.

Ganhyun · « **Reply #13 on:** August 08, 2008, 11:59:49 AM »

update: apparantly Georgia had been requesting NATO membership.

I wonder if this played into Russia attacking now?

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #14 on:** August 08, 2008, 12:09:50 PM »

China must be pissed, today was supposed to be their day!

I know there are Americans out there who see "Russia invades Georgia" and are like, OH DAMN, RED DAWN'S ON, SON

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #15 on:** August 08, 2008, 12:46:28 PM »

ITS HERE. OBAMA THE ANTI-CHRIST, RUSSIA INVADING SHIT. AND OTHER STUFF

JAYSUS BRING US HOME

Bocsius · « **Reply #16 on:** August 08, 2008, 12:46:35 PM »

More like "The Russians went down to Georgia, looking for a soul to steal."

BlackMage · « **Reply #17 on:** August 08, 2008, 12:48:23 PM »

Quote from: duckman2000 on August 08, 2008, 11:36:07 AM

Well, I wouldn't necessarily believe everything that comes out of the Georgian president's mouth right now.

This, though, is just plain hilarious.

Quote
Britain and the United States also urged all sides to bring an immediate end to the violence.
"The U.S. has been in discussions for many months with all parties to find a peaceful resolution," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe. "We urge all sides to refrain from violence and to begin direct talks."

I really don't think this particular couple should be pointing any fingers when it comes to choosing armed conflict over diplomacy.

dude, different situation. We gotta protect the white people. oh shit nevermind there's still a lot of brownies over there. WAR!

lordmaji · « **Reply #18 on:** August 08, 2008, 12:51:47 PM »

hrmmm... This is messed up.

CNN... BREAKING NEWS... is not Russia invading Georgia... at least when I looked. nice.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #19 on:** August 08, 2008, 12:51:47 PM »

Jesus, didn't I see this on the news like last century?

Ganhyun · « **Reply #20 on:** August 08, 2008, 12:55:10 PM »

Quote from: Father_Mike on August 08, 2008, 12:51:47 PM

Jesus, didn't I see this on the news like last century?

Yea, this all started i nthe early 90s. Part of Georgia wanted to seperate and alot of the speratists are Russian citizens as well. They have had a triple group commitee there for a while.

My guess as to why this is happening now: NATO. Georgia wanted to join NATO and Russia didnt want them to since it represents more West (read US) encroachment onto their turf. Take them out now with an excuse about poor separatists and keep the out of NATO.

duckman2000 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 08, 2008, 12:57:34 PM »

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on August 08, 2008, 12:09:50 PM

I know there are Americans out there who see "Russia invades Georgia" and are like, OH DAMN, RED DAWN'S ON, SON

Beats dudes who are comparing it to Ghost Recon.

Quote from: Ganhyun on August 08, 2008, 12:55:10 PM

My guess as to why this is happening now: NATO. Georgia wanted to join NATO and Russia didnt want them to since it represents more West (read US) encroachment onto their turf. Take them out now with an excuse about poor separatists and keep the out of NATO.

Which would, again, make for a pretty poor opportunity for the US to make any righteous statement.

lordmaji · « **Reply #22 on:** August 08, 2008, 01:13:44 PM »

hey... on a MORE important note. Paris strikes back!

the more you know!

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #23 on:** August 08, 2008, 01:27:51 PM »

This isn't shocking. The USSR is just down, it isn't necessarily out.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #24 on:** August 08, 2008, 01:46:51 PM »

This means we get a new Operation Flashpoint game?

duckman2000 · « **Reply #25 on:** August 08, 2008, 01:47:14 PM »

So, the Georgian president is calling for the international community (ie USA) to assist, on the basis of Russians invading foreign soil. Keeping in mind, of course, that Georgia itself has troops stationed in Iraq, participating in an armed intervention that Russia was strongly opposed to. A political clusterfuck in the Caucasus, how odd.

Eric P · « **Reply #26 on:** August 08, 2008, 01:57:41 PM »

Quote from: duckman2000 on August 08, 2008, 12:57:34 PM

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on August 08, 2008, 12:09:50 PM
I know there are Americans out there who see "Russia invades Georgia" and are like, OH DAMN, RED DAWN'S ON, SON

Beats dudes who are comparing it to Ghost Recon.

that is kind of funny coincidence wise

Tauntaun · « **Reply #27 on:** August 08, 2008, 01:58:47 PM »

Quote from: The Iconistrator on August 08, 2008, 01:46:51 PM

This means we get a new Operation Flashpoint game?

Son AND CoD I mean, this was just begging to happen.

duckman2000 · « **Reply #28 on:** August 08, 2008, 02:06:29 PM »

Random book recommendation because it fits in: Kremlin Rising.

ShogunOfFear · « **Reply #29 on:** August 08, 2008, 02:23:47 PM »

Quote from: BlackMage on August 08, 2008, 12:48:23 PM

Quote from: duckman2000 on August 08, 2008, 11:36:07 AM
Well, I wouldn't necessarily believe everything that comes out of the Georgian president's mouth right now.

This, though, is just plain hilarious.

Quote
Britain and the United States also urged all sides to bring an immediate end to the violence.
"The U.S. has been in discussions for many months with all parties to find a peaceful resolution," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe. "We urge all sides to refrain from violence and to begin direct talks."

I really don't think this particular couple should be pointing any fingers when it comes to choosing armed conflict over diplomacy.

dude, different situation. We gotta protect the white people. oh shit nevermind there's still a lot of brownies over there. WAR!

Please just don't.

Crushed · « **Reply #30 on:** August 08, 2008, 02:25:32 PM »

This is some Team Rainbow stuff, we need DING CHAVEZ up in this.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #31 on:** August 08, 2008, 02:30:04 PM »

[youtube=425,350]JBPyx2U3Ll0[/youtube]

siamesedreamer · « **Reply #32 on:** August 08, 2008, 02:39:23 PM »

Posting this from my Blackberry:

Awoke this morning to sirens and hundreds of parachutes in the air...few minutes later three Soviet troops busted down my door...saw me posting on Gamefaqs...shook their heads...ordered me at gun point into the back of a truck...now at some huge internment camp outside Buckhead...hopefully they won't find my blackberry (kinda stinks if you know what I mean)...will post again on next potty break

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #33 on:** August 08, 2008, 02:41:26 PM »

Quote from: siamesedreamer on August 08, 2008, 02:39:23 PM

Posting this from my Blackberry:

Awoke this morning to sirens and hundreds of parachutes in the air...few minutes later three Soviet troops busted down my door...saw me posting on Gamefaqs...shook their heads...ordered me at gun point into the back of a truck...now at some huge internment camp outside Buckhead...hopefully they won't find my blackberry (kinda stinks if you know what I mean)...will post again on next potty break

so awesome. if the REDS did invade georgia and I was living in atlanta, I'd be headed for the hills and mountains around rome to start putting up my partisan resistance.

Crushed · « **Reply #34 on:** August 08, 2008, 02:43:04 PM »

If the Russians invaded Atlanta, they'd all get shot and robbed.

duckman2000 · « **Reply #35 on:** August 08, 2008, 02:45:00 PM »

Holy crap, some people are actually writing Medvedev off as an "unknown bureaucrat." That forum needs to just stick with US politics, or at least consider historical precedence before blurting out their nuggets of wisdom.

ShogunOfFear · « **Reply #36 on:** August 08, 2008, 02:55:31 PM »

Medvedev is just a puppet installed by Putin. Putin still holds the true power.

Ganhyun · « **Reply #37 on:** August 08, 2008, 03:08:01 PM »

Quote from: Fragamemnon on August 08, 2008, 02:41:26 PM

Quote from: siamesedreamer on August 08, 2008, 02:39:23 PM
Posting this from my Blackberry:

Awoke this morning to sirens and hundreds of parachutes in the air...few minutes later three Soviet troops busted down my door...saw me posting on Gamefaqs...shook their heads...ordered me at gun point into the back of a truck...now at some huge internment camp outside Buckhead...hopefully they won't find my blackberry (kinda stinks if you know what I mean)...will post again on next potty break

so awesome. if the REDS did invade georgia and I was living in atlanta, I'd be headed for the hills and mountains around rome to start putting up my partisan resistance.

Any RED army invading the state of Georgia and trying to take Atlanta would be destroyed. That would unite every clique and group in the state in one cause to destroy them.

Crushed · « **Reply #38 on:** August 08, 2008, 03:14:03 PM »

niccas drive their tanks into the atl and get their treads stolen, tanks up on cinder blocks

Tundra · « **Reply #39 on:** August 08, 2008, 03:14:45 PM »

Quote from: duckman2000 on August 08, 2008, 02:06:29 PM

Random book recommendation because it fits in: Kremlin Rising.

Ganhyun · « **Reply #40 on:** August 08, 2008, 03:15:28 PM »

Quote from: Crushed on August 08, 2008, 03:14:03 PM

niccas drive their tanks into the atl and get their treads stolen, tanks up on cinder blocks

Tauntaun · « **Reply #41 on:** August 08, 2008, 03:29:50 PM »

Quote from: ShogunOfFear on August 08, 2008, 02:55:31 PM

Medvedev is just a puppet installed by Putin. Putin still holds the true power.
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That man is such a bad guy from a movie or game. Look at him. We need a president that badass (but not crooked).

siamesedreamer · « **Reply #42 on:** August 08, 2008, 03:54:58 PM »

Quote from: Crushed on August 08, 2008, 03:14:03 PM

niccas drive their tanks into the atl and get their treads stolen, tanks up on cinder blocks

fucking hilarious

Ganhyun · « **Reply #43 on:** August 08, 2008, 04:03:58 PM »

Quote from: Tauntaun on August 08, 2008, 03:29:50 PM

Quote from: ShogunOfFear on August 08, 2008, 02:55:31 PM
Medvedev is just a puppet installed by Putin. Putin still holds the true power.
(Image removed from quote.)

That man is such a bad guy from a movie or game. Look at him. We need a president that badass (but not crooked).

I look at that pic and hear James Bond music.

Mupepe · « **Reply #44 on:** August 08, 2008, 04:31:50 PM »

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #45 on:** August 08, 2008, 04:59:55 PM »

Fragamemnon · « **Reply #46 on:** August 08, 2008, 05:05:20 PM »

yankees heading for atlanta with a big box of matches

I know the OP in that post must have been a troll, but that is a pro response.

Mandark · « **Reply #47 on:** August 08, 2008, 05:19:15 PM »

Well shit.

So much for the faint hope that Medvedev's ascension would herald a new, cuddlier Iraq. Looks like NATO should have fast-tracked Georgia's membership (or outright rejected them).

I'm not sure what leverage the big western nations have on Russia right now, seeing as how they're stretched out militarily while Russia's sitting on increasingly important gas and oil reserves. Blech.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #48 on:** August 08, 2008, 05:40:41 PM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on August 08, 2008, 04:59:55 PM

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siamesedreamer · « **Reply #49 on:** August 08, 2008, 06:42:58 PM »

Georgia is recalling all 2000 of their troops from Iraq tomorrow.

duckman2000 · « **Reply #50 on:** August 08, 2008, 06:58:44 PM »

Quote from: siamesedreamer on August 08, 2008, 06:42:58 PM

Georgia is recalling all 2000 of their troops from Iraq tomorrow.

Which, as mentioned, is just bloody cute given the accompanying justification, and plea for international support based on the wrongness of Russian presence on foreign soil.

Rman · « **Reply #51 on:** August 08, 2008, 07:03:37 PM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on August 08, 2008, 04:59:55 PM

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Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #52 on:** August 08, 2008, 09:26:42 PM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on August 08, 2008, 04:59:55 PM

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laesperanzapaz · « **Reply #53 on:** August 09, 2008, 04:02:46 AM »

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/georgia_south_ossetia;_ylt=AmjlHZe_vdaMlsXatWzyf9.s0NUE

now's a good time for that stray asteroid, god

duckman2000 · « **Reply #54 on:** August 09, 2008, 12:59:03 PM »

So, according to DN.se, fighting has also broken out in Abkhazia. Georgia is for all intents and purposes fucked.

Mandark · « **Reply #55 on:** August 09, 2008, 02:33:54 PM »

Abkhazia's the region everyone was expecting to set off hostilities in the first place. Ossetia was treated like a footnote until recently.

The impression I get is that Georgia and Russia are both run by fairly aggressive nationalists. Saakashvili thinks Georgians should control all the territory within their official borders and Putin thinks Russia should have influence or control over its near border states.

Western support for Georgia (some military aid and training, NATO membership on the backburner) was just enough to make Russia feel threatened and Georgia feel confident enough to move without providing actual backup. At least that's my take.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #56 on:** August 09, 2008, 03:39:14 PM »

Georgia going forward with some sort of aggression thinking other NATO nations would back it up would be hilarious if it wasn't for the already built up 1400 death toll :/

Mupepe · « **Reply #57 on:** August 09, 2008, 03:42:16 PM »

I'm packing my bag right now to go fight the Russians. I'm taking my .22 and some hunting knives. I'll be taking my friend Kenny to film it all too.

Oblivion · « **Reply #58 on:** August 09, 2008, 03:48:22 PM »

There's TWO Georgia's now? :O

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #59 on:** August 09, 2008, 04:01:11 PM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on August 09, 2008, 03:39:14 PM

Georgia going forward with some sort of aggression thinking other NATO nations would back it up would be hilarious if it wasn't for the already built up 1400 death toll :/

I read somewhere most of those casualties were Russian but maybe it was propaganda?

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Author Topic: Russia invades Georgia (The country, not the U.S. State) (Read 9031 times)