An excellent post.  Russia’s invasion of Georgia is, once again, exposing the folly of neoconservative foreign policy.

McCain rolls dice.

Obama plays poker.

Putin plays chess (and judo).

Hey, Saakashvili rolled the dice as well!

Bravo, Mr. Derbyshire.  Only last night I told friends that Putin isn’t necessarily a Bismark or Metternich, but that the fools running our foreign policy surely make him seem so.

Any chance we can get Putin to run for president here?

We aint playin Checkers, we’re playing Russian Roulette and guess who is more experienced at that bit of professional pathos.

The Amateur Hour of this government has gone from slightly dangerous, to foolhardy and very dangerous to darkly comic and is hovering now over a deep pit of tragedy. This is what happens when you release yourself to the whims of the self-loathing and call it “patriotism”.

The people of Poland should send every American a lifetime supply of Cheese Blintzes and Potato Pierogi for voting in a government that replaced them as the brunt of jokes.

Another spin of the pistolero anyone?

Why is no one telling the truth as of what happened?
Georgian and Israeli/US forces as well as foreign mercs launched a full scale assault on S.Ossetia deliberately targeted at the civilian population so they would flee.
Russia justifiably came in to defend its peacekeepers and civilians from being shelled and Russia “invaded Georgia” to repeal forces attacking S.Ossetia.
Russia bombed other targets outside of the two regions because they were bringing in reinforcements to continue the attack on these two provinces.
Russian intelligence also captured Georgian intelligence officer planning terror attacks in Russia and recruiting militants to perform attacks in Russians southern regions.
For more than a decade the US and foreign countries have been running a proxy war against Russia in Chechnya beginning with training and setting up international crime and terror networks in Bosnia in 92. As a direct provocation to get Russian forces involved in the first war the US backed Chechen pres launched a full scale ethnic cleansing campaign against its native Russian population.
Since then Chechen militants have been in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey.
US and Georgia have been running terrorist training camps in Georgia’s Panski Gorge to attack Russia for years. In 2003 militants from Afghanistan were transferred on mass to the Panski Gorge to set up camps there. Impossible without US assistance as they had a huge military presence there and control the ports coming in and out of Georgia.

One is reminded of Kuhn, Loeb partner Jacob Schiff’s “hatred” of the Czar and Russia in general when he bankrolled Lenin and Trotsky in consort with the Germans to subvert the February revolution and the Kerensky government. Neocon foreign policy exhibits the same hatred. The more things change.......

@Rick Johnson

I was thinking this is exactly like the non-Russian Bolshevik revolution. Nationalist groups who seeked independence from the Russian empire aligned themselves with Jewish Marxists communist groups to weaken the Russian state. Jewish Marxist Bolshevik leaders were recruited, organised and financed in New York by the most powerful Jewish bankers in the world.

For years before international media and left wing socialist groups lead a smear campaign against the Czar trying to create discourse in the country making way for the revolution.

Official history has it that poor Russians fed up with the Czar rised up fought Czarist troops in the civil war installed communism in Russia then spread across Eastern Europe as some sort of Russian inherent imperialism. A convenient myth.

I reality it was nationalist groups aligned with Marxist groups that helped install communism in Russia. Jewish groups wanted to use Russia as a base to spread its Marxist global revolution. Most noticeable in Spain and Germany. Germany was afraid of being engulf in a Marxist state that’s why they voted for Hitler and were so anti-Jewish.

Anti-Semitism was punishable by death and although churches were blown up not one synagogue was demolished.

The first communist government was overwhelmingly Jewish and created and run its government organisations, Gulags, KGB, press, etc.. 

Later Soviet officials fearing Jews would defect to Zionism and lose international Jewish support created an exclusively Jewish autonomous region inside Russia called Birobidjan http://www.tellingfilms.co.uk/birobidjan.htm (there was a link Swarthmore College website on Birobidjan but is no longer running). .

With the outbreak of WW2 and its aftermath Marxist groups in these countries backed by there masters were able to seize control of these countries and had the same high proportion of Jews in the government as in Moscow.

It was only after 67 when USSR broke relations with Israel that it became “anti-semetic” when they promised Arabs assistance in the 6 day war but never did.

So it’s funny seeing Jewish Neocons former Trotskyite communists saying that Russia is the Neo-USSR wanting to invade neighbouring countries.

Sir,

please stop trying to insult the western europeans. Just this morning I reread the story of the valiant fins under Baron Mannerheim - and guess who had nothing better to do than declare war on the only small neighbour of Stalin’s to successfully stand up to the red army?

Why should western Europe risk collective incineration because our friends and protectors goofed once again?

What is happening in Georgia is a terrible tragedy, but as far as one can see right now, it seems to have been avoidable.

Sincerely

Nothing more need be said: Derbyshire said it all.

James and Rick Jonhson, stop trying to prove taht you are a Nazi. Res Ispa Loqitor. You are what you are, or are trying to prove the expression that the ignorant prove themselves so.

Plenty of groups helped the Bolsheviks gain power. Their most influential, powerful, and proximate backers was the high command of the German Empire. It was German High Command, including future Nazi-allie Erich Ludendorff, who funded the Bolsheviks in Russia, after transporting Lenin and other to Russia. (And Lenin’s claim of a sealed train is a laughable lie.)

The Bolsheviks, like all communists were definitional antisemites, hating Judaism and Jewishness, if not Jews on a racial level. Go pick up “On the Jewish Question” by the fallen Lutheran, Karl Marx.

Synagogues were destroyed in the Soviet Union, while others were desecrated and turned into museums or civil buildings. Practicing Judaism was a crime, and Orthodox and other practicing Jews cowered in fear or were sent to Gulags. Rabbis, like Priests, when not shot, were simply worked to death in Gulags. They were charged with counter-revolutionary activity or with the crime of Zionism.

Jews fleeing the Nazis, were viewed as spies, and many, like my maternal Grandfather and two of his brother were sent to Gulags. (Only my grandfather survived.)

The USSR reduced official antisemetism right after World War 2 and voted for the creation of Israel, or rather the creation of a Jewish communist state. When it became clear that the Zionists were anticommunists and that Israel would not be Moscow’s pawn, Stalin’s personal antisemitism became official policy again. Stalin was setting up mass death trips to Birobaijan when he died. Look up the “Doctor’s Plot”, if you don’t beleive the truth.
Stalin blamed the excesses of his ordered murder of Ukranians and Russians through starvation and forced collectivization, on the demon of Jewish birth, Kaganovich.

In Poland, antisemetic violence was endorsed by the Communist part both in the 1950’s and later in the 1960’s, culminating with most Polish Jews fleeing official communist antisemitism. My father, who had been a partisan killing Nazis, had the pleasure of living under the first wave of Polish Communist antisemitic policies.

Mr. Piatak and Derbyshire.

Was Putin a KGB agent?
Did he call the fall of the USSR the greated geopolitical catastrophe of the century?
Did he or did he not order soldiers to move to the Caucuses before the fictional Goergian Genocide of Ossetians?

Forget Putin derangement syndrome, when the boot licking for communists, by “conservatives?”