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January 27, 2009
EU Restricts Saakashvili

Earlier this month I suspected another try by Georgia's lunatic leader Saakashvili to regain South Ossetia and Abchasia. There were several reports of unexplained Georgian troop movements near the borders of those territories.

It seems that the EU military mission, which observes the ceasefire in Georgia, also sensed something, applied pressure and moved to restrict Saakashvili's capacity to incite new border skirmish adventures:

The Georgian Defense Ministry and EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) signed a memorandum on January 26 stipulating “certain restrictions” to the movements of the Georgian armed forces in the vicinity of the Abkhaz and South Ossetian administrative borders, EUMM said.

The memorandum of understanding, signed by Defense Minister, Davit Sikharulidze and EUMM head, Hansjörg Haber, also stipulates the Georgian MoD to give advance information to EUMM.

Someone clearly said "stop that nonsense" and the Saakashvili government had to agree.

Posted by b on January 27, 2009 at 15:17 UTC | Permalink
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If a lowly power such as the EU can prevent Georgia from attacking South Ossetia and Abchasia, then there’s no reason whatsoever why the US, the world’s lone superpower, couldn’t have prevented Israel from inflicting a bloodbath on the Gaza Strip!

Posted by: Cynthia | Jan 27 2009 19:00 utc | 1

Looks like the Ruskies are sticking the ol’Doc Martins into Saakashvili’s privates.
Russia to relocate fleet to Abkhazia
Russia will build a new base for its Black Sea fleet at the port of Ochamchire in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, Itar Tass, the Russian news agency, reported an unnamed Russian navy official as saying yesterday.
Work would begin on the project this year, the official added. The announcement is likely to raise hackles in Georgia, which lost control of Abkhazia after a short war with Russia last August.
A short while ago, the Russians were talking about moving their Black Sea Fleet from Sevastapol to Novorossiysk.
Via TPM

Posted by: blowback | Jan 27 2009 20:24 utc | 2

This serves to confirm that Saakashvilli was the instigator of last years war….and that he is a born liar.

Posted by: brian | Jan 27 2009 21:52 utc | 3

there’s no reason whatsoever why the US, the world’s lone superpower, couldn’t have prevented Israel from inflicting a bloodbath on the Gaza Strip!
obviously.

Posted by: annie | Jan 27 2009 22:07 utc | 4

It’s amusing to read about failed neocon plots, except that I know there’s always a human suffering cost included in them (not neocon suffering, of course). I enjoy reading this, since I remember some commenter casting doubt over the veracity of B’s original story on this matter. If I remember correctly this person said “I’m not finding any reference to this other than on this Ossetian web site”. Well, duh! That’s why we come to the Moon, to learn things weeks or even months before anyone else.
The EU apparently doesn’t have the same bloodlust so prevalent here in the US. Good “christians” were cheering on the Israeli massacre of the Palestinians here, hoping for “the rapture”. Even the pastor at the local church in the little village I live in says “This has been going on for thousands of years, and no one understands it”. This, in spite of the fact that the jew didn’t have any historical claim to Palestine since before the Roman empire. Hell, the Shawnees have a more recent claim to Ohio than that.

Posted by: Jim T. | Jan 28 2009 12:14 utc | 5

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