I have a difficult time believing Putin, but after watching Mikhail Gorbachev on CNN it is obvious that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili did poke the Russian bear. Saakashvili miscalculated NATO support and especially US support. After he received all the weaponry and accolades from the US, he concluded that once he stirred up trouble the US would fall in line and send troops to support him. Instead he got a big shocker. Now, he is behaving like a crybaby and constantly whining on CNN on a daily basis. His days as President may be over soon.
This Saakashvili guy should remember that the Reagan administration provided Saddam Hussein with weapons and tons of money to invade Iran. That war continued for eight years and resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths on both sides. Then of course George W. Bush invaded Iraq, captured Saddam Hussein and hung him. Maybe a similar end is waiting for Saakashvili. It may not be the Bush administration though, it could be Putin operatives, nonetheless with the same fatal results. So the moral of the story is that if you rub shoulders with the US administration to earn favours and you are a small country, those are the pay-offs at the end. Recommend this post
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