I think he might be showing his old KGB T-shirt under his Judo Gi with these remarks.
"It is not just that the American side could not restrain the Georgian leadership from this criminal act. The American side in effect armed and trained the Georgian army," Putin said in an interview with CNN, part of which was broadcast on Russian state television.
Um, I think Putin does know that Georgia had a pretty weak army compared to Russia right? The Georgians could get all the American training in the world but they also needed American armor, technology, and command and control to get its full effect. I mean the Georgians had a bunch of Soviet era tanks and MIGs and not M-1 Abrams Tanks and F-22s Raptors. If they did they might have actually been a threat to Russia. The funny thing is after Russia decimated their military Georgia just might get that state of the art hardware after all to guard them from the Russian aggressor.
"Why ... seek a difficult compromise solution in the peacekeeping process? It is easier to arm one of the sides and provoke it into killing another side. And the job is done.
Does Putin actually think that Georgia could have "killed" the other side? I assume he means South Ossetia and not Russia. Sometimes it is hard to tell what he means when he is that paranoid. I think Putin does sleep in a closet with a loaded pistol with a silencer on it like that guy in the movie Munich.
"... The suspicion arises that someone in the United States especially created this conflict with the aim of making the situation more tense and creating a competitive advantage for one of the candidates fighting for the post of U.S. president."
So the Georgian crisis was precipitated by the US to give a "competitive advantage" to one of the candidates? I think it is about time that Putin puts down the Big Book of Conspiricies and comes in from the cold a little bit. They *all* aren't out to get you Vlady.
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