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"US were misled by Saakashvili’s PR-agencies"
Published: 30 September, 2009, 22:18
Edited: 16 March, 2010, 12:36
Georgia’s former representative to the Council of Europe, Tsotne Bakuria, joined RT to share his insight on how the initial opinion on the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict was formed in the US.
Mislead? Really funny. Every time something goes wrong, or just when it is intended to go wrong, the excuse is always "....we mean well, but we are not perfect, clumsy, misinformed..." add your adjective describing a well meaning giant, clumsily trampling around. MPRI is not a charity organization. It's specialty is ethnic cleansing on a large scale. Until now, no Western country, and their mighty media has come close to acknowledge the largest ethnic cleansing in Europe, the elimination of Serbian minority out of Croatia. In just a matter of days, with MPRI training, planning and arming, Croatian special forces pushed out over a quarter million inhabitants from Krajina region. Many more were silently removed from other urban and rural areas. So, who actually paid for MPRI, all former military generals and alike? And what was the role of Israel in the whole mess? This is not even touched subject. They were ---- mislead. By a guy who does not tie his shoelaces without their approval.
Mr.Saakashvili plays the game that is based on post coldwar sentiments. Alot of Americans have hard time to understand the modern face of Russia. How is it possible that this little georgian dictator overcomes in his PR approach the giant country like Russia?
Josh, Saakashvili succeeded because his message is what the Western media wants to hear and who is going to believe the Russians if they say different? It seems that western propaganda is just too engrained. I saw a BBC documentary about "Putins" Russia where school children in Russia are not taught what an evil country Russia is and how Stalin was as bad as Hitler. The funny thing is that that same reporter didn't ask similar questions about his own country... do British schools teach British children about the Opium trade in China, or the slave trade their nation supported or perhaps the actions of the British forces setting up concentration camps for Boers in South Africa, or indeed the genocide of lots of ethnic groups by the various European colonial powers. In fact many of the wars of the post WWII period blamed on communism often had their roots in colonialism. Much of the social unrest in many ex colonial places is because the money and power went primarily to one group and left the majority, normally natives poor and without land and or assets of any kind. When those poor majority rose up to get a better deal it was called communism to get a western power in to put it down.
It can hardly be spoken about "US were misled by Georgian PR agencies" for it is exactly US agencies, like CIA, US military, etc. that were chief inspirators for the Georgian led attack. Israelis were included in that business too. Now when US is broke and Israel is about to loose its main foothold, they both search for a new ally and they both converged onto an opinion that it could be exactly Russia itself. Western media and western leaderships are now expressing a deep feeling of surprise on "how it was Georgians that actually initiated the war, and how it is strange indeed that western media missed to realize that at the time of intense hostilities". As if they are apologizing now? The new US president Obama somehow reminds me on Gorbachov: He acts as someone who has just lost the Post Cold War war (PCWW) and, consequently, US has suddenly become pleasant partner to everyone. With lost self-confidence and an intense sensitivity of hopelessness US might indeed be considered a looser, and it is primarily through the US perspective that Russia looks like a winner of the PCWW. Only by the fact that Russia doesn't feel so desperate now it emerges like a victor to a wide population of Americans, while America is in a state of steady downturn and investors are fleeing away from it. The present western views of Russo-Georgian conflict are therefore just a bare consequence of a badly shaken Anglo-saxon faith in their own forces.