Pat Dollard | Young Americans

A top Russian general has accused NATO of setting up a naval force in the Black Sea under the ‘cover’ of aid deliveries to Georgia.

I’ve been saying what the general’s now saying, for about a week. Last week, we were about the only website to boldy put up a story headlined: Bush Orders Troops To Georgia. A lot of people said I was full of shit, since all we were sending were “humanitarian missions”. To me this was clear cover for Bush to exploit the opening he saw to get ships and boots and spies and material and gear and munitions on the ground. This was the most defensible way to hold the Russians in check, eject them, protect Georgia’s territorial integrity, and rebuild their military, all while fasttracking them into NATO, so that any future attack by Russia would be equal to an attack on any NATO nation, and merit the same vigourous military response. At the time I wrote this:

“Let’s be clear. This isn’t just about humanitarian aid. It’s about the fact that the Russians will not commit anymore mayhem like the massacres of civilians they’ve already engaged in, and in fact will not stay, if the U.S. military is based for awhile in Georgia. Note Bush’s clear line that implies that we will stay in Georgia for as long as it takes to eject the Russians, and any undue influence they may have. In a way, it’s as if we’re annexing Georgia as a military protectorate: “The mission will be vigorous and ongoing,” It is a clear signal to Putin that fucking with Georgia, and by extension the Ukraine, is in some way like fucking with us. Interesting scenario. Russian, Georgian and U.S. armies in Georgia all at once, at a time like this.”

The MSM and most others weren’t catching on to this, because they just don’t much think in terms of real geopoltical and military strategy. They’re too busy trying to make the world fit their view of it, instead of actually trying to understand how the world really is, how it really works, and what a nation must do to protect its vital interests. Hell they don’t even have a clue as to what a vital interest is. In their mind, a vital interest is some sort of national pathologically self-centered evil.

The general is not a paranoid propagandist. He’s right, and anyone familiar with military thinking and strategy knows he is. We have NATO’s Supreme Allied Commaneder, an Amercan general, on the ground in Tbilisi, running our end of things, preparing the table logistically. This is why I said “Let’s just see if the Russans deny our destroyer and it’s crew entry”. The Russians know it’s no small deal to have warships with guns that can hit many targets, sitting in Georgian ports, with those guns pointed right up their asses. And how much time will our crews spend on the ground? What HET and intel teams and special forces and other operatives are amongst them?

NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe, U.S. Gen. John Craddock, right, shakes hands with Georgian soldiers unloading U.S. humanitarian aid at Tbilisi airport on Friday, Aug. 22, 2008.

Yesterday, the Brits threatened to send ships with nukes rght into the Black Sea. The Russians wanted to play “we can go into Georgia, and then leave” bad-asses. Well, the problem is, half-measures don’t work. You’re not as clever as you think you are, Vlad. Now that you’ve halfway conquered Georgia by rolling in and then leaving, you’ve left the door wide open for us to enter, and we’re already coming through. You’ve done little more than to create a Georgia/US/Nato threat right at your doorstep bigger than the one you rolled into and smacked around. If you want to start shooting as we come in, go for it. Your creeky, thin-skinned military is no match, and no matter how big of a bad-ass you play in the movies, you ain’t launching no nukes.

Yes, our aid is going to creep into reinforcments, and you can just suck it up or start swinging. Either way, we’ll be happy.

Once again, Iran’s Press TV: h/t Mike In VA

A top Russian general has accused NATO of setting up a naval force in the Black Sea under the ‘cover’ of aid deliveries to Georgia.

“Under the cover of needing to deliver humanitarian goods, NATO countries continue to boost their naval grouping,” Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of general staff, told a news conference in Moscow.

Nogovitsyn made the remark after Pentagon said several US ships, led by the destroyer USS McFaul, were heading for Georgia for deliveries of humanitarian aid.

NATO battleships entered the Black Sea on Thursday for military exercises with Romania and Bulgaria. The alliance has rejected any links between the move and the South Ossetia conflict.

Pentagon claims the naval ship is for aid deliveries to Georgia.

Nogovitsyn said the US move would not help ’stabilize the situation’ in South Ossetia, which saw days of military conflict between Russia and Georgia after Tbilisi began an offensive to regain control of the breakaway region.

Nogovitsyn rejected Georgia’s claims that Moscow was not complying with a France-brokered peace agreement between Moscow and Tbilisi to end the conflict.

He said Russian forces will patrol and keep control over Georgia’s main commercial port of Poti, maintaining that this would not violate the agreement.

The six-point peace plan allows Russian peacekeepers to take ‘additional security measures’ in a buffer zone near South Ossetia until international peacekeepers are deployed.

Nogovitsyn also accused Georgia of preparing guerilla attacks in South Ossetia, where a Russian peacekeeping force of about 2,600 troops are stationed.