2008 Our foreign political thinking should finally be freed from phobias, handicapped attitudes and illusions. A fresh example of the last one is the notion of non-alignment. Finland's position outside the military alliances was not of any help in the mediation task in the crisis in Georgia.
2022.8 But the problem is that you had the Germans & the French able to blame Saakashvili &half-excuse Putin.／And a lot of the Obama people were very critical of Bush's handling of Georgia,&half of them sort of believed the war was Dick Cheney's fault& he had egged on Saakashvili and some nonsense
could get Russia involved. If the US or another NATO country then gets involved, this could be the starting point for the scenario they trained for in September”. 〜We know that, in 2008, they had the contingency plan that if the US gets involved in guarding Georgia from their invasion,(
12/4the intelligence agency already saw certain preparations on the part ofRF after Georgia war, whenRussians “began to deploy groupings (of its armed forces) along our borders”. Gvozd said that as early as in 2009,he realized thatUkraine needs to “change approaches to our intelligence efforts
In 2008, he labeled the Russia–Georgia War as a "Georgian attack" on "Russian peacekeepers" &ended his article with the statement that Finland should not discuss NATO membership because "it could create the impression that Finland is moving from cooperation to confrontation"
“were convicted of high treason for sending text messages to Georgian acquaintances about the movement of Russian military equipment on the eve of the brief 2008 Russian-Georgian war.” Annik Kesyan and Marina Dzhandzhgava were posted on the Russian government’s website on July 29.
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Russia started preparing for aggression against Ukraine right after Georgia war - ex-head of Intel Service
Paavo Väyrynen - Wikipedia
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lennutrajektoor on Twitter: "Grim reminder Russian army partially entering South-Ossetia on Aug 6 & 7. On Aug 8 2008 Georgia counter attacked.… https://t.co/1aDLAWa7iM"
Putin Pardons Two Women Jailed For Text-Messaging During Russia-Georgia War
