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Saakashvili eyes reviving anti-Russian bloc

Published: 17 August, 2010, 16:20
Edited: 27 August, 2010, 15:22


Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili (AFP Photo / Guillermo Legaria)

Tbilisi and Chisinau have reportedly agreed to revive the post-Soviet bloc uniting Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova (GUAM) which Moscow considers “anti-Russian”, writes Kommersant daily.

 
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Bianca August 17, 2010, 17:53 quote
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Given that Ukraine and Azerbaijan do not have any interest in advancing anti-Russian neighborhood, the subject is rather tiring. But as anything else linked with huge bureucracy, there are probably funds earmarked for that purpose in various imperial budgets, and that money needs spending. After all, there are plenty of nutjob nationalists in Ukraine and their brethern in lunacy in Belarus, whose destructive dreams are the stuff empires are made off. Their dreams need to be nurtured, and such conferences are great vehicles for doing just that. Georgia is hugely compromised country. It has been politely isolated in the neighborhood, especially from its most important neighbor, Turkey. It can continue the fantasy dreaming with Israel all it wants, but neither Azerbaijan nor Ukraine at the moment have interest in alienating Russia or Turkey. I feel immensely sorry for Georgia, the country that is a hostage to its crazed elite. On the other hand, it has been the tragedy of many people that have allowed their short term, illusory gains to take them down the wrong path. But how often people deliberately choose harder path just because it is the right thing to do?

alex August 18, 2010, 18:24 quote
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lol .... stalin's mini me

Impera August 19, 2010, 18:46 quote
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I believe that G.U.A.M. is nothing more than another exhausted ideology just like NATO because they are both set in the mind frame of the Cold War and are uselessly against Russia in every respect. I simply have had enough of Saakashvili because of the fact he is a mad man and has no place in today's politics and are holding both Georgia and it people hostage to no progress. I would love to see an end to G.U.A.M. because they are not achieving anything these days, the only thing they are achieving right now is the lack on focusing on ones own country, Georgia: being held hostage by a mad man the only lonely one calling for Post-Soviet Hostilities and War Ukraine: now officially beginning to get more and more secure "Good News For Ukrainians" no need for G.U.A.M. any more Azerjaijan: well this country has too many problems such as the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement with Armenia and Ottoman Empire feuds last thing they want is G.U.A.M. Moldova: well it's citizens in large bulk wants to rejoin Romania and has Transnistria disputed territory to settle, again last thing on their mind's is G.U.A.M. So maybe G.U.A.M. is yet another organisation that will in effect be among a long line of failed Post organisations, the only Post-Soviet organisation that is doing well is the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS yet Georgia left that organisation so maybe Saakashvili will be famous as the worst "President" ever in Georgian History. I think in the long term Georgia will loose more allies and friends as days, months and years go by with as long as Saakashvili and all of his paranoid ilk is still President.

dean ouali August 27, 2010, 14:57 quote
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President Mikheil Saakashvili epitomises the style, made worse in his case by the lies he served up to deceive foreign opinion. He boasted of defeat. Georgia was being swallowed up, Tbilisi was on the verge of occupation, Russia was using weapons of mass destruction. The biggest lie was his attempt to airbrush the fact that he created the crisis by launching an artillery barrage on the South Ossetian capital, which killed scores of civilians and 15 Russian peacekeepers. It was absurd to think Russia would not retaliate. So the next lie was to claim Russia's leaders had prepared a trap. In fact, they were taken by surprise as much as the Ossetians.

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