West condemns Russia over Georgia

by Babel-Fish | August 26, 2008 at 07:04 pm

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Western leaders have condemned strongly Russia's decision to recognise the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

US President George Bush warned his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, that his "irresponsible decision" was exacerbating tensions in the region.

Georgia said Russia was seeking to "change Europe's borders by force".

Earlier, Mr Medvedev told the BBC that Russia had been obliged to act because of Georgia's "genocide" of separatists.

He also said Moscow had felt obliged to recognise South Ossetia and Abkhazia as other countries had done with Kosovo earlier this year.

So President Bush thinks that ethnic cleansing is the way forward in the ex-communist states because if Russia does not stop helping its citizens across it borders (most have inter married with the locals and then settled in small border enclaves) that will happen. Russia could solve the problem by re-allocating these citizens into Russian territory, how difficult that maybe that's another story. These citizens would have be compensated for land and property they own. Most of these ex Russians have lived in the ex-satillite states for many a year or born in the place they live.

Its a problem that USA is using to its own interest and it seems the USA is trying to start another cold war. Its because Russia is getting richer every day.

The president said Russia's relations with the West were deteriorating sharply and a new Cold War could not be ruled out., but that his country did not want one.

"There are no winners in a Cold War," he told the BBC's Bridget Kendall in an exclusive interview in the Russian town of Sochi.

The Russian president is seemingly making more sense than Bush.

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