Renewing the Cold War

Some in the press call this a return of the Cold War but I think that the invasion of Georgia is far from that. I am no Soviet or Russian analyst with war maneuver stories on my desk and inside information on the interplay of Russia with its surrounding information. I go on the past experiences and what I am fed from the news with the additional sense of questioning some of the information that could be biased. Calling one side the aggressor and the other not only invites Russian rhetoric; the Russians call the Georgians the attackers when they tried to stop the breakaway of former province and another separatist region. Clearly Russia ends up as the major aggressor if for the single reason that it has remained in a foreign country without plans to leave even though it promised to. To say this is a rekindling of the clod war is forgetting that there are no missile maneuvers here, no submarine deployment back in the day of suspicious espionage between east and west. And if there is it is too low key to create any cold war fever, I think. Here are some of the recent developments.

After Russia counter attacked the Georgians in the region of South Ossetia, they went deeper into the country to capture key points linking the east and west side of the country.

Their military presence is still being felt after they destroyed much of the central city of Gori and other cities along the east-west route. They have also captured the port of Poli and are going through its port facilities perhaps in search of weapons that might have been used to widen the conflict. Georgia is a sovereign nation; too bad it did not get into the NATO membership before the conflict otherwise the Russian would have thought differently from exasperating a conflict which could have ended with their capture of the so-called pro-Russian province of South Ossetia. Personally I don’t know how pro-Russian that province is, but I do know that passports were given out to its residents perhaps to rekindle an animosity between Ossetians and Georgians? So who is the aggressor then?