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By Michael Webster: Investigative reporter August 15, 2008, 10:00

Russia sent hundreds of tanks, thousands of combat troops and bombed Georgian air bases killing thousands after Georgia launched a major military offensive with the intention to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia.

Witnesses said thousands Ossetian capital was devastated civilians died in the worst outbreak of the hostilities since the province won de facto independence in a war against Georgia that ended in 1992.

"I saw bodies lying on the streets, around ruined buildings, in cars, "said Lyudmila Ostayeva, 50, who had fled with his family to Dzhavid, a village near the border with Russia." It is impossible count them now. Not a single building left undamaged. "

Clashes as much global attention focused on the start of the Olympic Games and many leaders, including Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin and President George W. Bush, were in Beijing, where it is believed that Putin informed Bush for the first time on the soon to be the invasion. There is no warning from Bush to Putin, it was reported.

Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles warheads targeting the United States and has the ability to attack all major U.S. cities. Both Russia and China have the largest standing armies and are being built war machines much faster then the U.S., which includes their navy and air force. The U.S. has few military options to respond to aggression in Georgia by the Russians and can only be fought with diplomatic and economic retaliation, U.S. officials say.

President Bush after the fact was only able to warn Russia that its push into Georgia could jeopardize relations with the U.S. and Europe, management noted that any punishment would be for the Russian economy and prestige.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Russia beating Georgia troops has left Washington with few military options acceptable according to what administration officials told the Times. This high-level source requested anonymity when discussing internal policy decisions. It further recognized that military aid to Georgia from the table and sanctions against Russia were impractical, they insisted on the U.S. could take long term measures for economic and diplomatic that would hit the Kremlin hard.

Even before the crisis in Georgia, tensions between Washington and Moscow have been rising over disputes such as the independence of Kosovo, NATO's expansion toward Russia's borders and the U.S. plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe. In another development that infuriated Moscow, the United States and Poland recently reached an agreement to install a missile defense base on U.S. territory Polish. Who has Georgia in this mess anyway? Shares Bush misled the country into thinking the U.S. would come to their aid, according to columnist Rosa Brooks.

Ms. Brooks wrote in his weekly column to the Georgians have been punished enough, declared Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Or maybe not. At press time, Russian tanks were rolling through the Georgian town of Gori, in violation of a ceasefire agreement. So it may have more punishment in store for the Georgians, who were stupid enough to imagine that if you held a confrontation with Russia over the disputed region of Ossetia South, Uncle Sam would come riding to the rescue.

Ms. Brooks went on to say President Bush shares the blame. Once on the fainting stopped moving that is "" Vladimir "baby blues, Bush seemed intent on showing Putin and other Russian leaders that no longer gave a damn. The administration supported the revolutions of color "in Russia's backyard and denounced antidemocratic repression in Russia - while making excuses for" friendly "authoritarian regimes elsewhere. The administration also virtually shut down extensive multi-issue dialogues with Russia, which had been maintained by previous administrations, hammering in the message that he did not care much about good relations with Moscow.

The administration also aggressively pushed policies that could not have been better designed to enrage the Russians. At the NATO summit in April Romania, Bush urged a quick NATO membership for Georgia.
Meanwhile, Georgia's government said the "Our best friend in the" award of the Caucasus. The U.S. have supported the development of pipelines that cross Georgia to challenge Russia's regional economic hegemony, and provided the fledgling Republic of Georgia generous economic and military aid, including a review of its forces. In return, Georgia sent 2,000 troops to Iraq, and the administration pretended to be deaf when Georgian politicians crowed that their newly improved military would perfect to teach South Ossetian separatists a lesson annoying.

But it's all gone disastrously wrong for our best friends, and we're sitting on the sidelines, offering empty assurances to the Georgians and empty threats to the Russians.

The U.S. and the USSR were the two superpowers during the Cold War.

According to Wikipedia for a superpower is a state with a leadership position in the international system and the ability to influence events and around the world the power of projects, traditionally seen as a step higher than a great power. Alice Lyman Miller (Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School), defines a superpower as "a country that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence around the world and sometimes more than one region of the world at a time.

After the Cold War, the most common belief held is that only the United States meets the criteria for considered a superpower.Many believe that the U.S. have lost their status even before spurerpower Russian attack on Georgia. Others doubt the existence of superpowers in the age post-Cold War together, indicating that the current complex global market and growing interdependence between the world of nations has made the concept of a superpower an idea of the past and that the world is now multipolar.

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Salon reports that nineteen years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall effectively eliminated the Union Soviet as the other superpower in the world. Less than a month, the United States similarly lost its claim to superpower status when a barrel of oil crude oil roared past $ 110 in the international market, gasoline prices crossed the $ 3.50 threshold at American pumps, and diesel exceeded $ 4. As was the case with the USSR following the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the U.S. will no doubt continue to stumble on the superpower, as it was before, but as the economy the nation remains gutted to pay for their daily dose of oil, which will also be seen by the increasing numbers of savvy observers as an ex-superpower budding. The fall of the Berlin Wall meant the erasure of the superpower status of the Soviet Union was clear to international observers in the time.

According to Russia's military chief of staff AP, said that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in preventive strikes to protect itself and its allies, the more aggressive comments from increasingly assertive Russian authorities.

A general Yuri Baluyevsky not mark a policy shift, analysts military. Amid disputes with the West over security issues, can be understood as a warning that Russia is prepared to use its nuclear capability.

"We have no intention of attacking anyone, but we consider it necessary for all our partners in the world community to clearly understand ... that to defend sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia and its allies, military forces will be used, including preventively, including with the use of nuclear weapons, "Baluyevsky at a military conference in an observer program at the public cable channel Vesti-24.

The Russian Government launched its new nuclear policy in a document entitled "Concept of National Security. The document updates policy statements indicating a greater sense of conflict with NATO and the U.S. on nuclear issues, and increased reliance on nuclear weapons. This confirms Russia's policy to strengthen the use of nuclear weapons, not only in response to a nuclear attack, but also to a conventional attack.

Cooperation between the U.S. and Russia, including the Cooperative Threat Reduction program to secure Russian nuclear weapons and fissionable materials are under stress following the expansion of NATO, NATO attacks on Serbia and the U.S. decision to advance the National Defense Missile. Russia no longer maintains a "no first use policy" and is considering re-deployment of tactical nuclear weapons. The Russian Duma (Parliament) ratified START II on the basis of maintaining the ABM Treaty. Thus, the U.S. plans withdraw from the ABM prompted Russia to maintain a number of START II missiles, and possibly even increase the number of nuclear warheads on some of them.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in his address to officers at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia that Russia was focused on strengthening its nuclear capabilities.

The two nuclear superpowers may be building its nuclear capabilities. Most armed conflicts are taking place in the world each year, which means that the world needs more conventional arms, or better still, precision weapons, with effects comparable to nuclear weapons.

Because it draws attention to the nuclear threat from Russia, the United States has accelerated the transition to the forces conventional forces, reducing their reliance on its nuclear arsenal. Acting under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John C. Rood, said as much in late May.

According to Reuters, "Moscow has boosted military spending as part of an effort to make Russia more assertive on the world stage after that the chaos of post-Soviet period. He has also tried to reform its military to create a more professional, well equipped and mobile army.

Sources:

LA Times

· Hall

· RIA Novosti

· Reuters

· CIA

· AP

· Wikipedia

You see only what your heart dictates for you to see?

I know what I'm trying to say here, do you share with me what you think I'm trying to say, I think I need your help! Thank you. A long row near the entrance to the sanctuary, a miracle they came to see. "Cry, Our Blessed Mother!" Proclaiming to the faithful as they leave. Skeptics respond with head movement: "We do not see tears." Who is right? No tears? Strange dichotomy at play here. Believers are reflected his wishes while hearts closed, non-default view, make dry eyes to their reality. He looks at me, and even tears are wet upon my face, yet sees nothing, the dynamics thereof. I, like porcelain lady remains defined by its own cold-hearted about the way I planned. Typo, "The dynamics are the same"

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