disband NATO

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Russia arrived at the final decision to start intervention in the second half of 2007; the Kremlin regarded this measure as its only opportunity to prevent Georgia from integrating into NATO. According to our data, military units from the Russian town of Ivanovo were constantly deployed in the conflict zone; intelligence aircraft were extensively used, including a jet similar to the U.S. AWACS. On August 4-5 Russian paratroopers were deployed in Abkhazia – they prepared invasion of Georgia through Abkhazia.” MPs asked whether intelligence reported to the President [Saakashvili] about those facts; Mr Bezhuashvili replied that he submitted “detailed data” not only to the President but also to representatives of western countries. After it the meeting was closed to the press.

Representatives of Georgia’s radical opposition believe that the Government won’t be able to get away with it. According to opposition activists, on November 7 (the day when the Government dispersed an opposition rally), thousands of people, who have new reasons for discontent with the Government, will gather in the centre of Tbilisi.

“T[h]e public’s main question is – how it happened that Georgia got involved in the war,” one of the opposition activists David Berdzenishvili says. “We have always stated that the problems with Abkhazia and South Ossetia should be addressed using peaceful methods only, but we have lost the republics during the war. Saakashvili says that he responded to the Russian attack on August 8. We reply: we know what Russia is and even admit that it moved its troops there, but why did Georgia get involved in the war? We saw the Georgian army move in the South Ossetian direction on August 7. Everyone knows that Tskhinvali was bombed after Saakashvili’s order.” The opposition doesn’t rule out that President Saakashvili’s decision to start the war for South Ossetia was prompted by the necessity to consolidate the nation ahead of the rally on November 7. “Most of the people considered the start of hostilities as Saakashvili’s courageous deed, which means that even if he’d managed to seize Tskhinvali, even with a high death toll, it would have been regarded as a great victory,” Mr Berdzenishvili opines. “After a defeat in the elections and without legitimacy, Mr Saakashvili needed to create such conditions where the majority of the population would think that regaining control over Tskhinvali is more important than electoral fraud.”

It serves as a completely unwarranted threat against Russia and a means to increase the military clout of American imperialism. It has become also the brass ring, the seal of legitimacy, for the mini-fascists charming or cheating their ways to the presidencies of former Soviet states. This is nothing more than a sixty-year-old power structure trying to redouble itself, a framework for the West continuing to tyrannize the rest of the world for fun and profit.