Shouldn't americans be thanking russia?

[ara87]

If Russia hadn't got in and done what it did, the US would probably criticize them for not intervening, Azerbaijan might have been encouraged to attack karabakh in a similar fashion as Georgia did with S Ossetia in hopes of getting it back, that would launch a war between us and them, which has the very likely possibility of spilling over by getting Iran, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, and others involved, Russia probably on our side, Georgia and Turkey with the Azeris, Iran probably playing both sides. Abkhazia might end up trying to gain independence in the middle of it all, as well as S Ossetians, assuming the Georgians left any, Pkk might use a distracted Turkish gov to do some damage, Azeri separatists in iran might try something too, all the while, you still have Iraq and Afghanistan going on, and then of course there will probably be some crap in Israel with Hammas or Hezbollah. This is all worse case scenario, but it doe definitely have the potential to bring further unbalance to the region

[jgk3]

Re: Shouldn't americans be thanking russia?

what makes you think all that is possible? I've mainly read the articles on the matter that were posted on this site, what have you been reading?

[ara87]

Re: Shouldn't americans be thanking russia?

well i did say worse case scenario, but back when all of this started some Azeri official, in an article I'll have to dig up and find now, said Azerbaijan might take similar steps as Georgia did, to ensure territorial integrity of azr. if it proved successful. So if the Russians hadn't of gotten involved the Georgians would have been successful in their campaign against s. ossetia, which would send a message to azr. saying that no one would do anything if they attacked us/NK. this would cause a war between us and Azr. which would endanger the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which is important to Europe and soon Israel & the levent. If Armenia got in a war with Azr. it could have the potential of spilling over into border nations, plenty of Armos and Azeris in Georgia.... would Georgia try something in Javak to make sure it didn't try to separate? Georgia would also side with Azr. b/c of the pipeline. Abkhazians might try something while Georgia is distracted. Turkey would side with Azerbaijan of course. Russia would most likely pick us, b/c they hate the pipe line b/c it give's Europeans a choice for gas outside of Russia. Iran would probably play both sides.

Now keep in mind that Iraq and Afghanistan are still going on, and that Hammas and Hezbollah are always itching to do something in Israel, and that any time the pkk could pull some crap, and that there are just plenty of more things in the region that could go wrong

[jgk3]

Re: Shouldn't americans be thanking russia?

alright, though one thing you're not saying at all is that the US is the superpower that's instigating Russia's natural sphere of influence by triggering Georgia to advance into South Ossetia to ethnically cleanse it in the first place.

We have so many users on this forum who post about this issue, have you read what they have contributed?