Why is Russia invading Georgia?
Georgia attacked S. Ossetia ‘to regain control of the region’ since Ossetia wants to split from Georgia. Georgia-Ossetia confilct has long ongoing history: the most recent murder of Ossetians was in 1991-1992 during time Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first president of Georgia. Gamsakhurdia’s slogan was “Georgia for Georgians’. Both Ossetia and Abkhazia declared independence after realizing where it goes. Soon it turned into genocide of Ossetians by Georgians who has a majority, about 84% of population. Many Ossetians, mostly civilians were killed during this conflict. ‘Agreement on the Principles of the Settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian Conflict between Georgia and Russia’ was signed in 1992, no military confrontations between Georgia and Ossetia had occurred. Piece keepers, including Russian were present in the region ever since. De facto government of S. Ossetia had ruled the autonomy. Things were relative stable until coming of Mikheil Saakashvili, current Georgia’s president in 1994. He d
Russia’s invasion of Georgia is best understood in the context of the USSR era Soviet Union. In the time of the Soviet Union, Georgia was a mix of many ethnicities and cultures, and to this day maintains that diversity. An ethnic group known as the Ossesians, geographically in Georgia, but who consider themselves Russian ethnically, decided that they no longer wanted to be part of Georgia. Seeing this declaration as a potential to regain lost territory, Russia invaded Georgia with the intent of annexing as much territory as allowable by international appeasement, but with the guise of assisting their culturally similar and ethnically dependant brothers in a struggle for independance.
georgia’s leader pissed off the russians somehow, and the russians want to flex their muscles…and show the rest of the world..us that they are willing to fight for what they want, and wont back down again…I think they are gambling that nobody will intervene, militarily to help the former soviet republic, cause it might lead to an actual war, that’s why we are hesitant to help georgia.
