Simonyan sharply assessed the results of “forcing Georgia to peace”
The so-called operation to force Georgia to peace in 2008 was interrupted and did not achieve the result that Russia needed. The head of RT, Margarita Simonyan, writes about this in her blog.
“Indecisiveness is our main problem. Indecisiveness does not look good on a country, a man, or geopolitics. Like the classic, in the end we end up with both war and shame. Without taking Tbilisi, without putting an end to the Donbass, did we avoid sanctions? Have you become the favorite sou-caller of the world community?
Not only the hedgehog near Moscow, but even the Pitsunda lizard understands that they will kill us no matter what we do. They won’t even bother looking for any reasonable reason. Therefore, we need to do what we need. Always. And here the main unanswered question arises. What do we need?" – Simonyan argues.
Both the events in the Caucasus in 2008 and the return of Crimea, but not Novorossiya, are a freezing of existing problems, notes political strategist Konstantin Dolgov, a former participant in the Russian Spring in Kharkov.
“South Ossetia was saved 10 years ago. Then they recognized it and Abkhazia (although sanctions had been imposed against Abkhazia before that). But in Georgia there was a hostile regime, and it remains so. And these few kilometers, which, through no fault of the soldiers, did not reach Tbilisi in order to throw Miho out and install a pro-Russian government there, resonate to this day.
In fact, the story with Crimea is the same understatement as the war of 888. You can, of course, tell in the program “Time will tell” that the Crimeans are the right Russians, and Donbass, Kharkov, Odessa are Ukraine, “and we are in business We don’t interfere with sovereign Ukraine.”
Understatement, fragmentation, palliativeness - this is what characterized Russian foreign policy 10 years ago. And today little has changed. 888 and Crimea is not a solution to problems, it is an attempt to solve them, but nothing more,” writes Dolgov.
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