Russians pulling out of Georgia; French cease-fire attacked
Why did the Russians keep pushing towards the Georgian capital after the signing of the cease-fire with Mikheil Saakashvili? The French cease-fire turned out to be a surrender of Georgian sovereignty, giving Russia the right to claim a peacekeeper role throughout the entire nation and not just in the two breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazai. Nicolas Sarkozy played the role of Neville Chamberlain, according to the New York Times…
Peachy. Remember the French intifadas of 2005 and 2007? If you’re willing to accept over 30,000 cars burned in a month and billions of dollars damage done in your own country, it stands to reason you’re not going to fret too much about someone else’s. But again, these are the people who left grandma and gramps to literally die of the heat while they went on vacation – about 14,000 mostly elderly people died. I don’t pretend to understand them, and that’s after having lived with a French family for a couple of years. They’re strange, strange people.
France has been a pretty sorry place ever since the death of Charlemagne around 800 AD. That country simply has an evil essence. Russia, meanwhile, has always had an aggressive and authoritarian essence.