Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:57:27 PM
Deja Vu About Georgia in Ukraine? Not Exactly
Feb. 21 Yanukovych fled, 4 days later, 25th, pro-Russian mayor installed in Sevastopol .. only 2 more days to 27th, pro-Russian Russian? armed men seized Crimean government buildings, and Crimean parliament sets May 25 as the referendum date .. a pretty compact timeline .. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/03/timeline-ukraine-political-crisis-201431143722854652.html .. Putin planned it well .. Sochi was a good cover, as Beijing 2008 was for his Georgia business ..
By NuNu Japaridze, CNN Producer
March 14th, 201405:49 PM ET
VIDEO
(CNN) - Russia’s neighboring post-Soviet country initiates democratic reforms in order to establish closer ties with Europe and U.S. It takes concrete steps to join the NATO alliance.
That doesn’t sit well with the Russian president, who warns NATO against allowing it. Russia then mounts political and economic pressure on the country in order to bring it back into the Russian sphere of influence. When that doesn’t work, Russia eventually invades the neighboring country under the pretext of defending ethnic Russians living there.
If you think that summarizes the current situation in Ukraine, you are mistaken – this all took place five years ago when Russia invaded Georgia, another post-Soviet state.
While it certainly feels like history repeating itself, here are five similarities and five differences between what happened in 2008 and what is currently taking place in Ukraine:
continued .. http://newday.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/14/deja-vu-about-georgia-in-ukraine-not-exactly/
.. it was a good move by the Ukraine Kiev people to not use the Ukraine military to attack pro-Russian Russian?
forces in Crimea as Georgia did in South Ossetia 2008 .. Russia was not sanctioned for the Georgia business ..
Feb. 21 Yanukovych fled, 4 days later, 25th, pro-Russian mayor installed in Sevastopol .. only 2 more days to 27th, pro-Russian Russian? armed men seized Crimean government buildings, and Crimean parliament sets May 25 as the referendum date .. a pretty compact timeline .. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/03/timeline-ukraine-political-crisis-201431143722854652.html .. Putin planned it well .. Sochi was a good cover, as Beijing 2008 was for his Georgia business ..
By NuNu Japaridze, CNN Producer
March 14th, 201405:49 PM ET
VIDEO
(CNN) - Russia’s neighboring post-Soviet country initiates democratic reforms in order to establish closer ties with Europe and U.S. It takes concrete steps to join the NATO alliance.
That doesn’t sit well with the Russian president, who warns NATO against allowing it. Russia then mounts political and economic pressure on the country in order to bring it back into the Russian sphere of influence. When that doesn’t work, Russia eventually invades the neighboring country under the pretext of defending ethnic Russians living there.
If you think that summarizes the current situation in Ukraine, you are mistaken – this all took place five years ago when Russia invaded Georgia, another post-Soviet state.
While it certainly feels like history repeating itself, here are five similarities and five differences between what happened in 2008 and what is currently taking place in Ukraine:
continued .. http://newday.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/14/deja-vu-about-georgia-in-ukraine-not-exactly/
.. it was a good move by the Ukraine Kiev people to not use the Ukraine military to attack pro-Russian Russian?
forces in Crimea as Georgia did in South Ossetia 2008 .. Russia was not sanctioned for the Georgia business ..
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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