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Reflections: Russian intervention and the conflict in South Ossetia, Georgia

by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: August 11, 2008   Last Updated: July 04, 2009

As a cold war legacy the corporate wrath toward an unprostrated Russia can emerge in the corporate broadcast media. The west will not become more secure with a fully disassembled Russia, nor with Russia's ethnic voluntary affiliates forcibly given over unto perceived adverse nonRussian governmental power..

Russia and Georgia have different Orthodox Church autoencephalous hierarchies-without a priesthood of believers structured in an egalitarian way the primary Bishop and Eucharist sharing brings a different communal focus to respective localities-with the transition away from the domination of an atheist Marxist state in Russia and Georgia the Orthodox Christian reformation may not have had time to actualize much less experience a significant permutation or modernization to a priesthood of egalitarian ecclesiastical structure able to have locality and non-locality simultaneously for all people of faith. Without such church reform locality is necessary for the conservation of such personal liberties that exist-as well as a defense against adverse monolithic statism; the South Ossetian crisis was not at all dampened by a priesthood of believers non-locality of brotherhood and sisterhood in practical organizational affiliations.

Historically Russia may have developed an SR bond (stimulus-response) between authoritarian government domestically and invasion from without. With few natural borders of a militarily naturally defensible sort Russia developed a frontier defense policy of meeting adverse border hordes as far from their own backfield as possible politically and financially. With that policy following the invasions of the Mongols, Germans and others the defense of rump regions following the end of the Soviet Evil Empire and its vast assembly of concurred national prizes of the second world war the certainty of right of defense of political self and friends emerged again in the conflict over South Ossetia with Georgia.

-Some political phenomena concerning the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia first, followed by earlier items and commentaries of the crisis...

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06/t_boone_pick ens.php

(from 2008 during the post-conflict period) Vice President Chaney became the proverbial crouching tiger, hidden dragon of Georgia visiting recently seeking to provide some succor to the badly led Georgian state that seemed to believe it was a good idea to kick sand in the eyes of Russia and invade the former autonomous Republic of South

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