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Originally Posted by underthedome
Georgia is not a puppet but a Democracy, elected fairly and freely. It's clear that support for the free and former soviet territories, the key word being former, must be brought closer to the U.S. and not be allowed to be threaten by Russia. If the message is for the U.S. to back off you can expect the answer to be a resounding no, the U.S. will support democracies without Russian permission and we see today in Georgia why this must be U.S. policy.
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Yes Georgia is a democracy but not without allegiance and inclination to a bigger power. Who such former territories should be brought closer to is a matter of whose better serves the interests of that country. US can support whoever they want however my point is their support does not always matter as is the case right now for Georgia. It is easy to sound magnifying NO's in words but other than that Georgians are the ones getting xeroxed. Both Russia and Western block have their own way to pressurizing countries to join them or not violate their wider agenda. Russians do it less diplomatically only because they can. If US was in a position to stick it to Russia militarily it would have done it by now. We know how lightening fast their response was when dealing with Afghanistan and Iraq. Similarly, Russia gave Georgia a lightening fast response. Countries who act on beahlf of their bigger master powers are always front runners in the battalion and have to pay the consequences for it. They are the first ones selected for oblivion. Pakistan is now becoming a prime example of that now as well just not as harsh as Georgia is though.