The EU’s gutless response to the Russian invasion of Georgia gets the sanitised treatment by the BBC here. Nothing new there. But if you check out Mark Mardell’s blog here you will discover that he reckons the EU has been astoundingly tough on Russia.“I reported on TV last night that the EU summit was “surprisingly tough” mainly because of the suspension of talks on a partnership with Russia, but also because of pretty strong robust language” Gosh Mark, aren’t you the intrepid journalist pointing out that strong language. Putin and his puppet Medvedev must be trembling at those tough words. Mark seems a tad distressed that some of us point out just how impotent the EU response has been to Russia territorial aggression, we can but wonder why…..
FOR RUSSIA, WITH LOVE.
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I can just see all the BBC homos wanking over a photo of Putin wth his shirt off.
‘Ooh he’d be so brutal with me’.
Martin,
Your imagery, as always, is vivid!
Martin? Not me mate.
Russia is a friend of the West. They are the only country that will attack Muslims with impunity. They don’t worry about killing civilians. They know how to win a war in days not like USA and Europe who are afraid to attack the enemy.
Russia is no more a friend of the west for being against the Muslims than it was a friend of the west for being against Hitler.
Russia will look after its own interests if they sometimes coincide with ours that will be through no intent of theirs.
Muslims are likely to be against every non Muslim society that they come into contact with. Inevitably that will sometimes be societies that are more robust that we are in looking after themselves.
its embarrassing when David Milliband goes on the telly acting all tough and hard towards the Russians
They must be shaking in their boots when faced with the posh public school boy who’s probably never had a fight in his life
god help us
Ron Todd:
You are correct but isn’t ‘your enemies enemy your friend’
“History starts again” (Melanie Phillips)
[Extract]:
…” we could start showing it [Russia] we mean business by throwing out all its intelligence officers currently swanning around London. The reason we do not do so is the same reason that we don’t throw out Islamist extremists. We no longer defend our interests against our aggressors. We cut deals with them instead, thus strengthening them and weakening ourselves. It is the behaviour of a culture whose back is broken • and from Moscow to Tehran, our enemies know it.”(Melanie Phillips).
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2055206/history-starts-again.thtml
“I reported on TV last night that the EU summit was “surprisingly tough” mainly because of the suspension of talks on a partnership with Russia, but also because of pretty strong robust language.”
…Bull’s eye there, Mr Vance. The Georgia invasion very probably changed the world – the real world we live in – for ever. Yet the BBC’s coverage is…well, what exactly? … It’s languid, late and demoted to rank to somewhere below a downgraded hurricane that didn’t deliver, and a nonsense tale about a teenage girl who is about to and will now get married. What the BBC coughs up is a reporter who really wanted to stay in Westminster, reporting his own words and opinions in anodyne Orwellian language. Thank God it wasn’t pretty weak robust language they used, double-plus ungood that would have been.
Doesn’t get much worse, does it?
Oops, too many to’s there:
demoted in rank to somewhere below
The Russians should be our friends. They are the closest thing to a white nationalist country in the world and are opposed to the treacherous European union. What is more, this is far from being a clear cut issue – I don’t suppose the author has seen the Fox News interview where a mother and child from South Ossetia side with the Russians and name the Georgians as the aggressors…
If anything this is one instance in the BBC coverage has been satisfactory.
MrLouKnee said
“… David Milliband … Russians. They must be shaking in their boots when faced with the posh public school boy who’s probably never had a fight in his life.”
Miliband is not a public school boy. He went to comprehensives.
“David Miliband was educated at schools in London, Benton Park School in Leeds and Boston, Massachusetts before being educated at Haverstock Comprehensive School in North London, where he obtained a Grade ‘D’ in Physics A-level, and 3 Grade ‘B’s.[5] Despite these results being lower than the normal entry requirements, via a scheme for children from deprived backgrounds, he was admitted to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he achieved first class honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He then took an S.M. degree in Political Science in 1990 at MIT, where he was a Kennedy Scholar.”
“Born in London, David Miliband is the elder son of Polish-born Marion Kozak and the late Belgian-born Marxist theoretician Ralph Miliband.”
Ralph Miliband worth a google.
David Miliband hardly a deprived background.
What’s an ‘S.M. degree’? Does it involve dressing in a gimp costume and being beaten silly by a woman with a bullwhip? If it does – and I’ve no reason to believe it doesn’t – that’d explain why Milliband is such a timid shit.
Sky report:
“Russia shrugs off EU ‘punishment'”
[Extract]:
“Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had some advice for the West on how to deal with the crisis. He picked up the Russian tiger theme again, implying, in his Shere Khan-esque voice, that it might just be best to let Russia remove the Georgian President.
He said: ‘If instead of choosing their national interests and the interests of the Georgian people, the United States and its allies choose the Saakashvili regime, this will be a mistake of truly historic proportions’.”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Russian-President-Dmitry-Medvedev-May-Be-Happy-With-EU-Punishment-Of-Suspension-Of-Talks/Article/200809115091552?f=rss
So, is this to be the next stage: that Russia deposes Georgian President, while EU ‘leaders’ wring their hands, and BBC merely dutifully reports it?
“But the BBC’s Steve Rosenberg, in Moscow, says America’s primary concern is not nurturing democracy in the region but rather oil and gas. ”
So there’s a surprise then. US just after oil!! From BBC website today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7595259.stm
What was the US’s intention when it sacrificed 30,000 of its young men to save Europe (and the UK) from fascism.
Was there an oil pipeline running through Europe that I don’t know about?
Hmmmm
Arguably the gutless thing about Europe’s response is not to criticise the fact that the US quite obviously gave the OK for Georgia’s act of genocide. There were hundreds of US advisors in the neighbourhood, one of whom left his passopty in Ossetia as he fled.
If Russia is in the right here & despite asking I have never had a response to the question what else Russia should have done when Georgia attacked, the gutless thing is not to openly say so.