Armed Cossacks pour in to fight Georgians

[formercia]

Source: The Guardian


Armed Cossacks pour in to fight Georgians
Neighbours mobilise in anger at Tblisi's attack on enclave

* Tom Parfitt in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia
* The Guardian,
* Saturday August 9 2008


Hundreds, possibly thousands, of volunteer fighters from Russia were mobilising to enter the war in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia last night.

Units of armed Cossacks from across the North Caucasus region which borders Georgia were poised to join the battle for the separatists' capital, Tskhinvali.

In North Ossetia, the region of Russia which shares cultural links and a border with South Ossetia, lists of men willing to fight against Georgian forces were drawn up. Vitaly Khubayev, 35, from the capital, Vladikavkaz, told the Guardian: "There are already two busloads of fighters leaving for Tskhinvali every day. They give you a uniform on the way and you get issued with weapons once you arrive. If I didn't have three children I'd have gone."

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/09/russia.georgia1

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They're back. History repeats itself, unfortunately.

[maddezmom]

1. was just reading this as you posted

Volunteering to Kill Georgians
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1831523,00.html

[fascisthunter]

2. Freepers are probably Masturbating to the News that this war is escalating

[formercia]

3. I bet 'Dick' Cheney is too.

Sick bastards.

[mtf80123]

13. Yup... there is going to be a shortage of lotion and tissue paper tonight.

Copy and paste from a neo-con site:

I suggest sending an unmistakable signal...and killing 2 birds with one stone.

A massive attack on all Iranian underground nuclear research sites using nuclear bunker busters. There would be no significant radioactive contamination and the whole world would quake as the news broke. Follow up with the greatest shock and awe conventional attack of all time on Iranian infrastructure...have no mercy, leave them in the dark ages. Take control of their oil fields to ensure their safety. Rebuild Iran on their own dime...this time actually use their oil revenue to rebuild...not US taxpayers money. Unleash Israel, tell them it is time to clean out all the trash.

Raise the Defcon level just prior to the attack on Iran...the Russians would know immediately...the sweat would pour in Moscow.

[fascisthunter]

14. they sound like a bunch of dorks who couldn't muster the nerve to fight a fight themselves

playing commando behind a computer monitor as if a war was a video game.... "I'm a winner...! Really... I'm a winner!"

[formercia]

16. They tried something similar in Iraq but without nukes

We all know how that worked out.


Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

[Cleita]

4. Back to the Middle Ages I see. Be prepared for more ethnic cleansing

and other delights.

[amandabeech]

5. Jesus Christ on a Popsicle Stick!

How much worse can this get?

Are they riding horses and flashing their sabers?

[Renew Deal]

15. A lot worse

If other nations get involved.

[mtf80123]

6. OMG

Sounds like the beginnings of Genocide.

[Deny and Shred]

7. Aw, c'mon - Cossacks? and Agela Merkel is what? An Uhlan?

Better dead than Red? Can we put these WWI references to bed already?
Yeah, Ich Hatt Ein Kameraden. Where will that get humanity?

Every time I think we are past this nationalistic phase, this Old School stupidity resurfaces. I hope it's a last ditch neocon ploy to remind everyone in the West who our enemies once were.
Cossacks - unreal.

[amandabeech]

10. The Cossacks are an ethnic group from southern Russia.

They've been there for centuries, and Stalin didn't kill them off during the 1930s or 1940s purges.

Why they're so worked up about S. Ossetia I can't tell.

[Igel]

12. Not real Cossacks.

They were mostly wiped out decades back-they were White.

This is sort of a neo-Cossack, pro-Russian nationalist movement that started a while back, probably in the '90s. Ignored for a while, except as an oddity, now Putinized and given weapons and uniforms.

More jingoism. Not that Russia has any shortage in that dept., once you get past a layer of intelligentsia and pro-Western folk. A thin layer.

[Blue_Tires]

8. it still ain't a real war until the Janissaries enter the fray...

[HooptieWagon]

9. "If I didn't have three children I'd have gone."

Cossacks are freepers????

[rayofreason]

11. Khubayev...

Pretty Kuban Cossack sounding name to me.