Independent journalist Michael Totten has a new piece providing the truth about what Russia is doing to Georgia. It will not doubt shock you to learn that Russia’s version of events, too often parroted by the international press, isn’t true. It’s not even truthy:
Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili
foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent
troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. ?The warfare began
Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,? the
Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion.Virtually everyone is wrong. Georgia didn’t start it on August 7,
nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August
6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian
villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the
two sides in 1994. At the same time, the Russian military sent its
invasion force bearing down on Georgia from the north side of the
Caucasus Mountains on the Russian side of the border through the Roki
tunnel and into Georgia. This happened before Saakashvili sent additional troops to South Ossetia and allegedly started the war.
Read the whole thing, as they say.
