US and Russian warships line up in dispute over Georgia

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/27/georgia.russia1

US and Russian warships took up positions in the Black Sea today in a risky war of nerves on opposing sides of the Georgia conflict.

With the Russians effectively controlling Georgia's main naval base of Poti, Moscow also dispatched the Moskva missile cruiser and two smaller craft on "peacekeeping" duties at the port of Sukhumi on the coast of Abkhazia, the breakaway region that the Kremlin recognised as independent yesterday.

The Americans, wary of escalating an already fraught situation, cancelled the scheduled docking in Poti of the US Coast Guard vessel, the Dallas, and instead sent it to the southern Georgian-controlled port of Batumi, 200km (124 miles) from the Russian ships, where it delivered humanitarian aid.

"Let's hope we don't see any direct confrontation," said Dmitri Peskov, the spokesman for the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, as the Russians challenged the US policy of using military aircraft and ships to deliver relief supplies.

"The decision to deliver aid using Nato battleships is something that hardly can be explained," said Peskov. "It's not a common practice."

He said Russian naval forces were taking "some measures of precaution" around the Black Sea as the worsening dispute caused by Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia independence brought strong criticism from the key European countries most reluctant to sever relations with Russia.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, spoke to President Dmitri Medvedev today, the first western leader to talk to the Kremlin since Medvedev announced the recognition of the two secessionist regions of Georgia. She made it plain she had voiced her strong disapproval to the Russian leader.





http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2057

http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/Caucasus_War/caucasus_war.html &
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/Saakashvili/saakashvili.html

[C_U_L8R]

1. Bush/McCain is clearly trying to instigate a confrontation

I've seem more mature behavior in a sandbox.

These sick fucks truly believe the only way to win this
election and hold onto power (and avoid jail) is to start a war.
Trust your own eyes... they are trying.

[my2sense]

2. This is scary - why no coverage?

I was wondering what * has been up to this week.

:scared:

[magellan]

6. Good question

Surely this is important enough to interrupt non-stop convention coverage for a few minutes.

[Kurovski]

3. K&R. (nt)

[Wednesdays]

4. K&R

:kick:

[Octafish]

5. We can sink 'em.

Then, they can sink us.

Then, we will nuke them.

Then, they will nuke us.

At the end, they'll have...



...and we'll have



and some lime, if we're lucky.