When Richard Lugar, a senior Republic Senator, urges rearming Georgia to “stabilize” the Caucuses, what he really means is rearming Georgia to do the United States dirt little work of destabilizing the Caucuses and ultimately Russia. This Senator is not some junior Senator but a long serving member of the U.S Senate. If Russia’s media and leadership had any illusion that the ultimate goal of the United States is Full Spectrum Dominance- that this is senator’ statement should serve them well. Georgia is being used as staging ground of United States’s dirty wars in central Asia and the Caucuses.

It will be hard to keep up the illusion of improved relationship. Now that the nuclear arms reduction is in the bag, it will be business as usual. And this is a decided turn for the worse. Senator Lugar is a harbinger of era to come. News coverage from Georgia in US is a full-fledged Disneyland. No mention of protests, no mention of opposition, not a whit of interest in human rights and the rule of the law. Such pompous lectures are reserved for those who need political whipping into compliance. There is no mistaking the increased terrorist activity following the Georgia's adventure in Caucases. Is there any other reason for arming Georgia? Georgia is indeed the staging area for troublemaking. Yet, it cannot provide for a better life for its own population. This is what happens when the power-trip sugar plums start dancing in peoples' heads. One small elite obsessed with the illusion of power, and the stream of free money to keep them delusional.

I absolutely agree with Sarah. The USs ultimate goal is to destabilize Russia. The terrorist activity along Georgia's border is backed financially and logistically by the US and it's Georgian counterparts. I honestly don't know why Russia is not doing anything about this. They should find the evidence, present it to the world and then teach them a lesson they will never forget.

'Stability" in the Caucasuses will come only if Georgia is disarmed not re-armed. To give or sell arms to Georgia,knowing past recent history, is disgraceful.

USA is quickly eroding, both socially and economically. The erosion is leading to less profits and more economic woes for the plutocracy to which congressmen like Richar Lugar serve. Adventurism is sometimes a needed distraction and deviation in the road to empire dismemberment. Empires hardly go out without firing shots. As its military power begins to fade, USA is quickly becoming more and more dangerous for other nations. Power elites tend to seek operations abroad to force new market penetration and control. It will be increasingly harder to remain passive or to sustain severe military weaknesses in the face of the increasing maneuvering by usa. The empire economic and politically malaise makes it very likely to foster a situation of military adventurism abroad. Russia and its allies must remain on cautious guard with regards to Georgia.

'Agree with Sarah and Brisas , but 'Think Russia knows very well what's going on in Georgia and the article that we are referring to is an old news, this information has been on web for quite some time this is no new info, but agree with the comments the US is behind in all this adventurism but I don't see a new conflict with Georgia they already received there lesson last year but if they want another one I can assure you that Russia will not waver to kick the Georgians a..... you know what I mean the FSB knows very well what's going on in the South. And don't wary about Richard Lugar the US has enough problems now the US needs Russia allot more now than ever so the US is no position to start playing with Russia and China right now the balance of power is shifting to the emerging countries such as Russia,China,Brazil and India.

The best way to stabilise the entire region would be to get rid of Saakashvili. He is totally unpredictible and dangerous. The opposition are no friendlier to Russia than Saakashvili but at least they will be rational. The amount of improvement in Russian forces in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and commitments from Putin and Medvedev I would suggest no level of rearmament of the Georgian forces will be sufficient to allow them to retake any region by force. If the Georgians had performed better in 2008 they still would have lost, they probably would have been more heavily bombed however leading to more bloodshed on both sides (through better fighting ability on the side of the Georgians leading to more Russian military deaths and a more effective attempt at genocide, and more Georgian casualties due to retaliation bombings and attacks.)

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.

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