The iron finger
President Dmitry Medvedev, ultra classy and marvelously diplomatic tool and mouthpiece of the ruler of Russia, decided that the day after our commemoration of the deadliest act of terroism in history would be a good time to trot out this line of I don't even know what to call --
"The world has changed and it occurred to me that 8 August 2008 has become for Russia as 11 September 2001 for the United States. This is an accurate comparison corresponding to Russian realities."
So what exactly is Russian reality? And what mind altering substances do you have to use to get there? I mean, a government using military force to try to regain control of territory within its borders vs. a terrorist group destroying one of the most prominent landmarks of (arguably) our most iconic city and attempting to destroy the seats of our top military command and (presumably) excecutive branch. Not seeing much in common there, Mitya.* To be fair, of course, I should mention that the death tolls were about the same... if you multiply the current official count (from the Russian government. source:Wa.Post) by 5 and then add it to the 2000 Ossetian civilians killed according to earlier Russian, um, reports (read B.S. propaganda lies).
So as not to waste too much time crushing that fucktarded comparison into the dirt, I'm just going to accept Russian reality as having it's own rules and move on to further correspondence from that magical realm. Dima* also wanted us to know that he didn't like invading Geargia, Georgian president Saakashvili and US Sec of State Condoleezza Rice made him do it. He also points out that NATO membership for Georgia is unnaceptable. In case, we thought he didn't mean that in a nice way, he encourages us that even is Georgia was a member of NATO, he wouldn't hesitate to follow the same course of action if provoked again by Ms. Rice.
So this isn't actually on a level with what you'ld expect from, say, Saddam's Minister of Information. I'm seeing it as pretty frighteningly close though. And a lot more frightening because he's got a lot of force at his disposal to try to make the world fit his Russian reality.
Added note: to be clear on the casualty numbers- Russia's casualty figure(197) represents Russian military(64) and South Ossetians(133 of the 2000 first claimed)
Added note about my grammar: just don't worry about it, alright? I was tired.
*common Russian diminutives of Dmitry.
"The world has changed and it occurred to me that 8 August 2008 has become for Russia as 11 September 2001 for the United States. This is an accurate comparison corresponding to Russian realities."
So what exactly is Russian reality? And what mind altering substances do you have to use to get there? I mean, a government using military force to try to regain control of territory within its borders vs. a terrorist group destroying one of the most prominent landmarks of (arguably) our most iconic city and attempting to destroy the seats of our top military command and (presumably) excecutive branch. Not seeing much in common there, Mitya.* To be fair, of course, I should mention that the death tolls were about the same... if you multiply the current official count (from the Russian government. source:Wa.Post) by 5 and then add it to the 2000 Ossetian civilians killed according to earlier Russian, um, reports (read B.S. propaganda lies).
So as not to waste too much time crushing that fucktarded comparison into the dirt, I'm just going to accept Russian reality as having it's own rules and move on to further correspondence from that magical realm. Dima* also wanted us to know that he didn't like invading Geargia, Georgian president Saakashvili and US Sec of State Condoleezza Rice made him do it. He also points out that NATO membership for Georgia is unnaceptable. In case, we thought he didn't mean that in a nice way, he encourages us that even is Georgia was a member of NATO, he wouldn't hesitate to follow the same course of action if provoked again by Ms. Rice.
So this isn't actually on a level with what you'ld expect from, say, Saddam's Minister of Information. I'm seeing it as pretty frighteningly close though. And a lot more frightening because he's got a lot of force at his disposal to try to make the world fit his Russian reality.
Added note: to be clear on the casualty numbers- Russia's casualty figure(197) represents Russian military(64) and South Ossetians(133 of the 2000 first claimed)
Added note about my grammar: just don't worry about it, alright? I was tired.
*common Russian diminutives of Dmitry.
Labels: rant, Russia, this is all wrong, winning the war
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