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Republican Senator urges US to rearm Georgia to stabilize Caucasus
Published: 24 December, 2009, 09:17
Edited: 11 January, 2010, 16:13
TAGS: Arms, Conflict, Military, NATO, Georgia, Russia, Politics, USA
US Republican Senator Richard Lugar has urged the US and its European allies to re-arm Georgia after its military infrastructure suffered a blow during last year's war with South Ossetia.
The US has already given Georgia one billion dollars following the conflict, but has refrained from sending military aid.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Georgia is building up its military potential and, according to some estimates, has reached a higher level than before the war.
Georgia attacked South Ossetia in August 2008. The Russian army stepped in to repel the aggression.
Senator Richard Lugar is a Republican lawmaker who has long worked on Russia-US co-operation. Lugar has been a principal ally for President Barack Obama in his pursuit of an arms control deal with Russia aimed at improving relations with Moscow.
Lugar’s intention is also to win essential Republican votes to ratify the new START treaty once it is completed.
A report released Tuesday urges the administration to coordinate a strategy within NATO that strikes a balance between Georgia's security needs and relations with Russia.
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Russia's decisions'makers must understand than the main goal of the USA-NATO consorsium is the total control of the World's natural ressources. As far as democracies or peoples are concerned, they don't give a damn about them. With the arrival of Mister Putin's Russia, that general take-over had to be reconsidered. This explain why the greedy imperialists try so hard to divide the russian leadership and to suck M Medvedev into their projects (AMD, Irak's oil and gas, Afghanistan, wars on terrorism, etc.). To understand the US real masters, one must imagine homo-sapiens who will have a cash-register, instead of brain. It is as simple as that. Please, explain this to the Kremlin's peoples, because, regardless of what every one of us may wish N-PiPO (Obama) will change nothing. What has-he done so far, in a full year as president ? Sorry Future Generations. Best Regards...Jean-Claude Meslin
One should look at the chemical weapons lab near the airport constructed by the program of Richard Lugar and seek how that can stabilize the region. And no other than Bechtel National has the contract and there has been all kinds of technical problems with quality control and leaking welds, and why next to the airport? Many of the arms that get delivered to Georgia are delivered in name only, with the end user certificates, and get retransported to third world countries to fuel simmering and hot conflicts, and this business has been going on for years. Even many of the weapons captured in the buffer zone in the 2008 war were only stockpiled there and waiting for transport to other countries. Georgia had far more weapons on paper than it could ever use ... and it is no secret as to the purpose for these weapons.
Saakashvili identified two fumbling and drooling old US senators as targets for his clever pr campaign to play on their ego: Lugar and McCain. Saakashvili has so befuddled these old guys with charm, wine and ladies, that they haven't a clue that they are doing or saying in while visiting Georgia. I recall that day when I stepped out of the elevator at the Marriott Tbilisi Hotel and ran into Senator Lugar who was about to enter the elevator with his Georgian "friends". He was smiling from ear to ear and having a ball. I introduced myself and we chatted a bit. The Georgians were patting Lugar on the shoulder and proclaiming "his is our friend". Today, Senator MCain is in Batumi receiving the same Georgian charm treatment. I don't think the American people care what these old demented senators say any more. Saakashvili should have targeted younger American senators with his pr offense, but they are not as easily fooled as these two old grandpas. There is no fool like an old fool.