Listening to European "diplomatic" exchanges on the radio has come to resemble hearing particularly bad-tempered schoolchildren shouting insults at one another.
Since the decision by Mikhail Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, to endeavour to seize South Ossetia by force, while he thought that Vladimir Poutin was safely away watching the Olympic Games in Beijing, the rhetoric has become extraordinarily childish.
Bernard Kouchner and David Miliband (respectively, for those unfamiliar with Europe, the ministers in charge of foreign affairs for France, currently presiding over the European Union, and the United Kingdom) speak (to use a delicate term) for the "West" and the Russians happily answer back.
The "West" bellows "Georgia should not have been invaded " and the Russians reply "Iraq should not have been invaded".
The "West" shrieks "South Ossetia and Abkhazia should remain part of Georgia" and the Russians reply "Kosovo should remain part of Serbia".
The "West" shouts "the Russia fleet should quit Sebastopol" and the Russians shout back "the US Navy should quit Guantanamo".
The Russians scream "NATO is trying to encircle us" and the "West" answers "Russia is trying to bully weaker states".
Is this really the way to settle complicated territorial problems?
Obviously, these servile Europeans on behalf of the "West" are following instructions received from the corporations which rule the USA and they are now suggesting that a new "Cold War" is coming down upon us. This would delight the said corporations since it would enable them to make even greater profits than they do already.
Obviously, there is no absolute right and wrong in these territorial disputes (unlike the situation in the Holy Land where it is a simple question of the ruthless seizure of the inhabitants' homes and lands by outside invaders), and it does not seem beyond the bounds of the well-known human capacity for compromise for a peaceful resolution to be found to satisfy the basic desires of the peoples involved. It is clear that the bulk of the population of both Abkhazia and South Ossetia does not wish to come under the rule of the Georgians, but there are ethnic Georgian minorities in both regions whose right to live there in peace and their property should be protected. Once fighting broke out, atrocities were committed, probably on both sides, and the criminals should be punished, but outside force is most unlikely to resolve the problems.
Looking at this sad series of events from outside, it looks as though some neo-con agitator led Mr Saakashvili to believe that the USA would back him if he started hostilities, just as the USA's Ambassador in Baghdad seems to have led Saddam Hussein Takriti to believe that he had a "green light" from the USA to take over Kuwait. The obvious suspect is the CIA/Mossad which is the only entity which could believe that a spate of killing and hatred in this specific highly susceptible area could benefit its cause of world domination by the USA as an agent for the Zionists. The aim would seem to be to create difficulties close to Iran, whose efforts to free itself totally from foreign domination are a major target for the CIA/Mossad, and also to weaken all neighbouring Arab states which are not willing to collaborate with it.
The rest of the world can only look on helplessly while these evil forces create this mayhem, comfortably far away from the voting masses in the USA, who are being fed with their usual diet of lies and distortions by the fawning corporate media. We can only hope and pray that the ordinary people's suffering can be reduced as much as possible, but they cannot count on any help from the régimes in power in Washington and occupied Palestine.
Most clearly, this is not a school-yard spat, but a disastrously serious criminal adventure by hardened villains bringing suffering to the innocent.
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