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Another Putin Strategic Blunder
Another Putin Strategic Blunder
Paul Craig Roberts
The current government in Georgia, a former province of the Soviet and Russian empires, is not anti-Russian as was the Georgian government in 2008 that Washington used to invade the Russian protectorate of South Ossetia, resulting in Georgia’s rapid defeat by the Russian Army.
The present government is pro-Georgian and resists being drawn from either side into the West’s conflict with Russia.
US and Jewish financed NGOs permitted to operate in Georgia have just attempted to use opposition parties to overthrow the Georgian government in order to open a new front against Russia to drain Russia’s military resources.
Georgia’s Prime Minister reported that the attack on the government was “organized by foreign intelligence agencies.” The insurgents waved the European Union flag.
Opposition parties, which seem to be funded from abroad have nothing to gain from being set at war with Russia except the bribes paid to their leaders. Weak patriotism is a characteristic of countries that have a weak national consciousness. For a long time Georgia was a proud province of a superpower. Today Georgia counts for little on the world scene except as a possible Western pawn against Russia. When Putin was forced to conquer Georgia in 2008, once Putin made his point, he withdrew and allowed Georgia to resume its independent existence, because he did not want to support the West’s propaganda that he was rebuilding the Russian Empire. Probably, this was another strategic blunder by Putin. There is not much Georgian nationalism as evidenced by the masses organized by the West in the streets of the capital trying to overthrow the pro-Georgian government.
As long as Georgia allows the West to finance the opposition political parties, Georgia will remain unstable. With the West planning new fronts against Russia in the Baltics, Poland, Romania, and Moldova, Georgia would be a welcomed addition. Russia cannot conduct conventional war on such a large front from the Baltics through Ukraine to Georgia. What Washington and the UK and EU capitals do not realize is that putting Russia in such a situation guarantees nuclear war.
Unfortunately, Western peoples have neither the knowledge of the war their leaders are fomenting nor the power to influence their governments.
Probably Russia’s only option to avoid nuclear war, other than surrender, is the immediate destruction of Ukraine’s war fighting capability by conventional means. It would serve as a lesson to the other governments so determined to set themselves at war with Russia. Unfortunately for all of us, the Russian leadership has so far lacked the understanding, vision, and resolution needed to save the world from nuclear war.