This again?
Russia needs to back down here. Big time. It acts like a morally superiour superpower while in reality it is a backwater country, spread with corruption and criminal energy within an economy not larger then that of Portugal. With an authocratic regime stepping down on human rights on a constant basis, constantly threatenning it's neighbours who are forced to play similiar games to survive. Wether NATO should get involved in Georgia and with it's government is a legit question, but basing this descision on the big mouths in Russia and putting tails between legs just because this country does a lot of sabre rattingling to please it's nationalistic population is not ann option. This hypocrisis of showing force to Iran, North Korea, whatever country, but brownnosing to Russia will always remain a mystery to me. But the political left in Germany always had a tendency to ignore eastern european defecits. Must be a fashion, comparable to wearing Che Gueverra Shirts.
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