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Saakashvili’s Army on the Run

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Saakashvili’s Army on the Run

Not three days ago Saakashvili’s US-trained death squads were using Czech-made heavy artillery and US-supplied helicopters to bombard residential areas of South Ossetia’s capital, killing an estimated 2,000 civilians and sending some 30,000 refugees to neighboring Russia. Today, with tails between their legs, Georgian soldiers are running back to Tbilisi, pursued by Russian tanks and planes. Not a single EU or NATO nation dared to offer Saakashvili military aid after his soldiers butchered hundreds of unarmed men, women and children in the middle of the night.

Saakashvili’s genocide of Ossetians and his humiliating defeat makes his allies look foolish. For the past decade the US special forces instructors have been training and arming the Georgian army, just to see the results of their efforts decimated by a single Russian tank regiment in less than three days. The White House is understandably embarrassed and reacted angrily, albeit incoherently, to Russia’s military action.

For years, the US has been painting the Russian army as a bunch of drunkards in rusty tanks and today Washington’s favorite military pet project lays in ruin at the hands of these “drunkards”. One can appreciate Dick Cheney’s outrage in a rare televised foreign policy appearance alongside his other pet project.

Russian and Western military analysts agree that until the August 7 Georgian sneak attack, the Russian army was not preparing a military action in Georgia. Russia was not mobilizing its forces or massing troops on the Georgian border. All the more impressive was Russia’s lightning-fast response to Saakashvili’s unprovoked aggression.

At the beginning of the conflict Russia’s 58th Tank Army was at its home base in Vladikavkaz, as were most other Russian military units, and now, less than 72 hours later, the Georgian army is on the run not just in South Ossetia but throughout the country. Not a bad show by the Russian army after being chronically underfunded for nearly fifteen years.

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    August 12, 2008

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    anonymous said:

    Chronically underfunded russian army ? It has the third largest military budget in the world. Not a bad show ?? 1 million+ strong russains against 20thousand odd georgians. have you forgotten in Afghanistan so soon ? stalin or putin or anybody else; they are all the same. They dont care abt “russians” in georgia any more that they care abt buntus in africa. We all know that. Russia was provoking georgia to attack and play into their gameplan. Obviously you are a russian. Mr. czar remove that buffoons crown from your head and start thinking with your head. Well I can’t force you to think.

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    venik4 said:

    1+ million Russians? You must be dreaming. There are about 6,000 Russian troops in South Ossetia and another estimated 9,000 in Abkhazia. Plus about 50 aircraft – primarily the aged Su-25s – involved in this operation. That’s it. Third largest military budget? For how long? Two years?

    Just face the facts: the US spent nearly a decade and millions of dollars to train and arm the Georgian army against the Russians. The Georgian army ran back to Tbilisi faster than Spetsnaz could drive their APCs. So much for the American training.

    I can only imagine what a useless biomass American instructors turned the Iraqi army into.

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    Shotiko Reply:
    November 30th, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    Ok! You think that our soldiers were fighting bad and they are ODD, than don’t forget that your lovely Russia lost more than 2000 soldiers in 4 days,Georgian forces kicked their butts and also don’t forget cowardness of Russian troops, when 18 Georgians were fighting against whole batalion of Russians, and by the way Stalin was Georgian and without him Russians would be as weak as your buntus in Africa, so shut it and don’t forget this things in history! When Georgians were in their Golden age, Russians were playing with sticks!

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