In the EU democracy means whoever has the largest population enjoys the fruits of power and wealth while minorities are used as labor forces. It’s a despicable system of socialist democracy that we should not support. And when Russia steps up to defend a minority from its imposing bully rulers who claim a right to subject Ossetians to being lower class citizens, we site Georgia’s democratization to justify why slaughtering their people is an internal affair protected by their sovereignty.

Bush has an anti-Russian political agenda with Georgia where he’s put them on a pedestal over other states in the region in spite if their human rights record. Russia was acting as peacekeepers in Ossetia protecting them from human rights abuses by Georgians at the time it was invaded by a determined murderous force who began a wholesale slaughter of its citizens while the world was distracted by the Olympics which is traditionally looked forward to as a time of self restrained peace. The Olympics serve even through the worst of times to keep the dream alive that one day the human race can get along without war. But we haven’t taken any actions against the renegade state of Georgia for trying use the opening of the Olympic games to stage the beginning of World War III from.  

As soon as Russia did what could be anticipated they would do by defending its citizens and peace keepers from rogue state militants and terrorist, Georgia demanded the US transport 2000 of their troops in Iraq back to Georgia to help fight the Russians pouring across Georgia’s borders to arrest president Saakashvili for crimes against humanity. It was Saakashvili’s way of forcing our hand into an all out war between us and Russia. Saakashvili later referred to us as weak for not having taken decisive action against the Russians but still Bush condemned Russia for taking the matter into its own hands. I personally  thought it was a breath of fresh air that this former thug nation was willing to put the lives of its troops at risk to bring justice to the region. The US can’t police every tin pot democratically elected bully on the planet. We’re too polite.

I guess the fear is that Russia will take up the cause of the abused minorities on Europe changing the way the ruling classes do business there. But would mean less stress on the US in having to weigh in on every social imbalance in the world if the Russian used their military might in the EU this way. I mean we’re too big and powerful to strong-arm bullies whenever they go astray of mortality and human decency. We have to be diplomatic or everyone will fear we’re making a bid to take over the world, especially the Russians. But Russia is perfect for the job of being the goon squad of the planet. They know now that they cannot impose their will on the rest of the world unless they have something we want.

Russia knows that it has to work on within its own borders supporting its people before it can find something the rest of us want. They know the West duped them at the end of World War II into thinking they could be a threat to our future and freedom. We needed an enemy to give us an excuse to expand our economic empire and they were the competition. But Russia policing its border states over human rights abuses could only serve to force them to evolve in a more productive direction where human rights abuses in the EU can then be challenged by Eastern Europe’s more progressive openness making the overall landscape of the European continent easier for us to have to deal with, or really not deal with at all other than to trade with their growing competitive economies.  

The West has a bad habit of stealing from the Eastern nations of the world something that is very important to them, their pride. We’ve always done it to Russia but we even do it to the states we convince to stand against them as our allies by turning everyone in the region against each other. The US failed at the end of World War II to stand up for what we believe is the inherent rights of all human beings to be. We instead opted to take from Europe its easy access to the weaker economies of the world molesting them for their natural resources and cheap labor.

The Third World’s economy was built on European colonialism which left behind corrupt system of governing that made it easy for their European forefathers to molest their economies indefinitely. We’ve supported it as long as we have first grab at whatever comes out of them when we could have used our worldly economic and military prowess to separate them from the Europeans altogether so they could work on serving the needs and rights of their citizens becoming independent states the same we built this country. But we used the cold war as our excuse to turn trade into a weapon instead of competing with communism through spreading the kind of freedom we are supposed to believe in.
 
Now that the Russians are picking up where we left off in defending potential third world peoples who don’t want to be second class citizens in their homeland, we balk, as we should. But we’re wrong and should say so. And we should support Russia’s call for justice by seeing to it that whoever was directly responsible for murdering thousands of Ossetians is brought to justice and humiliated before a world stage, even as Russia has already taken care of that for us.

We should further applaud Russia’s new stance on supporting human rights violations against minority populations. If we did, we would be postured ourselves to reign them in if they get a little too bold in their efforts to make the world a better place.

But the way Bush and our news media has handled it, we’ve diplomatically pushed who  we should have taken the side of into a corner while placing ourselves on the wrong side of the issue. We further used the political climate between Russia and Georgia that we’re causing to become more heated by the hour as an excuse to place antiballistic missiles systems in Poland while making the Russians out to be the aggressors in their campaign to stop a genocide in Ossetia.

When this equation is broken down thoroughly, it is us who are the expansionist in the region, which was obvious before this all came about. Russia has been working to build its economy to be competitive in a free market. Bush and his Wall Street cronies have enjoyed free reign over the economies of the world for the past thirty years. Now they’re being forced to share and they don’t like it. So they’re positioning Russia at the other end of an ultimatum to doing business with us, just like what was done during the cold war. It’s wrong. We’re acting like tyrants blinded by believing our own propaganda about how good we are compared to how bad everyone we happen to have to compete with economically in this free market/democratically elected world we have created behind a mandate of greed and abuse rather then the principles of freedom we believe in.

As our economy crumbles under the weight of third world money that our leaders have gotten us spoiled on having free access to where we believe the meaning of freedom is easy money spilled from the blood and sweat of third world minorities, Russia is standing up for what we used to believe in which has turned them into our enemy. I hope Russia will feel the same kind of inspiration by being part of a righteous movement that we used to. But still I don’t like my leaders making me look like I come from a country of arrogant fools uniting us against Russia without anything being said about how president Saakashvili and the Georgina soldiers who committed atrocities against Ossetians are the only real criminal in this contest.

I don’t like being part of a nation that supports evil while pretending the good guys are the bad guys. That was what was done to us throughout the cold war by communist countries around the world. I liked being on the good side of that equation. But I guess it doesn’t matter what I want because our leaders pretty much seem united in preventing Russia from having a legitimate place at the table no matter how much we actually need their help to get through many of the problems that the world faces right now.

If only there was a cure for people who molest the human race for free money, then maybe we can move past the inadequacies of free market economies. I believe free markets work until the people who get rich from it start to take more money from it than they could ever possibly manage competing with each other using human populations for measuring scales for who has the biggest wad of cash. Perhaps there needs to be a limit on how much money any one person is allowed to have in their wallets where wealth has to represent more than just numbers but responsibilities the owners of it are sensitive to, not just portfolios they don’t care about the details of.

Whatever the answer is, clearly we’re being dragged into a new cold war by the same kinds of tactics that got us into the last one. And it’s obviously for the same kinds of reasons. Our rich people don’t have the resources to control all the wealth of the world so there is room for other countries to compete in our free market economy. But they feel threatened by this. They loose sleep at night thinking one day they will be in their country club locker room with a Russian who has a bigger wad than them. Get over it.

The wealthy classes of the world are minorities dependent on working class people for everything they have. We can cut you off where you have nothing left to compare making you eunuchs in an economy where we keep what we have left over at the end of the workweek for ourselves. So stop trying to stop Russia from sharing in the good fortunes of the free world by conspiring to drag them into a new cold war. Everything you do is transparent. We can all see it.

Everyone I talk to asks the same question – “What about what Georgia did to the Ossetians as the Olympic games opened?” It’s a serious question, the only question. Just because the news media is following Bush’s propaganda doesn’t mean we don’t see how this whole thing was a set up.

If Bush had approached the matter at the beginning from a realistic perspective, everything would be settled now with the Russians being hailed as heroes of freedom and democracy. Get over it Bush. Learn to share the stage where you pretend to be freedom’s loan warlord savior. If Russia can do a better job than you, so be it, more power to them. But don’t start World War III to preserve your legacy. The truth is you don’t have one anyway, except inside that warped mind of yours.

Did you notice how uncomfortable Laura looked as this whole thing unfolded while we watched you pretend to enjoy the Olympic games? Do you really think she was feeling threatened by Russia? Or was she mind boggled by what Georgia did to the Ossetians murdering so many of the men, women, and children just as the Olympic games opened? I mean Putin was sitting right there with you and Laura. Then he left heading straight to the scene of the crime while you sat there mocking him for doing it. Don’t you know how ashamed she must be of you right now? Have you no honor whatsoever? Doesn’t it disgrace personally you to know that your wife knows you’re nothing but a political whore rather than a man who stands up for what he believes in like Putin did.

Laura used to have a very public profile until you invaded Iraq. Now she just smiles. She’s always smiling except for when Putin left to tend to world affairs while you sat around vacationing watching children swim and do gymnastics.

Kiss your legacy goodbye Bush. You flinched. You had a chance to stand up for what was right but you were blindsided by that fact that you have no clue what that is. Hopefully you can’t make such a mess of this that the next president can’t fix it. But those fools are talking the same nasty anti-Russian rhetoric you are.

I hear the Russians are doing quiet well these days as opposed to all of your Wall Street friends who built our economy into a pyramid scheme that is now failing. Now you all seem to want to take us back to the cold war days to give yourselves space to rebuild what you screwed up having learned now how not to end a cold war with Russia. It doesn’t work that way.

If Russia or China gets ahead of us, follow them. Everyone knows now that the best way to compete is to be fair and open. The cat is out of the bag. The more defeated tyranny becomes at the hands of our policies, the more economically successful those countries will become. And as they become stronger, our weaknesses will surface such as how corrupt our financial system and political leadership is. So fix it and move on. But don’t try to take us back in time so you can relive the good ole days when you were omnipotent. It’s just never going to be that way again.

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