30,000 homeless as a chaotic conflict intensifies - Europe, World - The Independent

The US President, George Bush, said Russian attacks on Georgia marked a “dangerous escalation” of the crisis and urged Moscow to halt the bombing. In a phone call with Mr Bush, according to a Kremlin statement, Mr Medvedev “stressed that the only way out of the tragic crisis provoked by the Georgian leadership is a withdrawal by Tbilisi of its armed formations from the conflict zone”. The Russian foreign ministry also charged that Ukraine, whose pro-Western government is seeking membership of Nato and the EU, had encouraged Georgia to carry out “ethnic cleansing” in South Ossetia.

The Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, who arrived in the North Ossetian city of Vladikavkaz last night, accused Georgia of committing “genocide”, seeking “bloody adventures”, and trying to involve other countries in a military conflict in its separatist region of South Ossetia. “Georgia’s aspiration to join Nato… is driven by its attempt to drag other nations and peoples into its bloody adventures,” he said.

I’d say that this latest Russian adventure (Meet the new Russia, same as the old Russia) is more designed to accomplish two goals - control of energy infrastructure, and the prevention of Georgia from joining NATO.

Actually, the old Russia was communist, and the new is fascist. The end results, however, are indistinguishable.

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