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To: carranza2 who wrote (38233)	8/10/2008 11:43:37 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 218037

C2 what you write in the last paragraph may be very true. As to the aggression - for several weeks now there where armed skirmishes along the borders of the Russian controlled enclaves, and intelligence gathering drones where shut down by Russian fighter planes. See also BBC reports on this issue. What Russia did not expect was that Georgia will respond to their attacks as they did. I think Georgia was warning for a long time and every one chose to ignore their pleas, until they burst. I fully agree that this is all about Putin flexing his muscle and his anger at the Western Nations related to loosing his grip on Ukraine who wants to join the EU and NATO and the countries in the Caspian basin and also to Iran and the intention of including Ukraine and Georgia in NATO. The Russian aggression against Georgia is also to signal to Ukraine that Russian navy will not leave Crimea when their long term lease expires in Sevastopol - to which Ukraine responded- to bad Russian brothers - a contract is a contract and we do not want the armies of a foreign power on our soil - therefore it is easier to squash Georgia then get into conflict with Ukraine. In addition Ukraine is now making a national holiday and tries to pass legislation in Western Counties which will define the Russian induced famine under Stalin as genocide which will put Russia on the spot and may need to pay billions in compensation for the horrors and destruction of property and wealth in Ukraine IN another vein - Just imagine how Putin feels that Kazakhstan, a country the size of Europe retained GE to modernize their rail road system and not a Russian company. To put this in context – rail roads in Russia are an important part of Russian Nationalistic pride – and now GE spits into their faces