Comment: History repeats itself?:
"6 years ago today, Washington's puppet regime in Georgia, led by the psychopathic Mikheil Saakashvili, launched unprovoked attacks against civilian targets in the disputed territory of South Ossetia. Western media didn't pay the slightest bit of attention until Russian tanks entered South Ossetia and forced the Georgians back to Tbilisi, at which point it became a major media event and the false official narrative that 'Georgia attacked by Russia' was established and has endured to this day.
As this documentary shows, Georgia in fact attacked Russia, and did so with the help of NATO military personnel, NATO weapons and equipment, NATO 'counter-terrorism' training, and a green light from Washington. In fact, fighters from the Ukrainian National Defense Forces (UNA-UNSO), set up by NATO, supplied snipers and other military personnel, the same organization that would later become instrumental in orchestrating the coup d'etat in Kiev and today's bloodshed against ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine."
© UnknownPresident of Georgia and NATO puppet?: Georgy Margvelashvili
President Georgy Margvelashvili, in a speech at the Chatham House think-tank, said: "We will shoot for an invitation for NATO membership. But we understand that...decisions are made in a much more complicated way."
NATO said earlier this year it would stop short of approving a formal step to membership for Georgia at the summit, agreeing in principle to a "substantive package" of cooperation with Georgia that would help it move closer to the alliance.
Margvelashvili also said he did not think the Ukraine-Russia crisis was over despite news on Wednesday of talks between the two sides.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday his views and those of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko were "very close" on finding a political solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine and an accord between Kiev and separatist rebels could be reached by Friday.
"That was positive but on the other hand we had one more column going into Ukraine. It is always simultaneous, you have one positive and one negative, but I don't think this is the final solution," Margvelashvili told Reuters on the sidelines of the event at Chatham House.
Comment: Margvelashivill is saying the things that NATO wants to hear. Otherwise, no membership for Georgia!
"But we will see, at least it is a good thing that those people are talking."
Like Ukraine, Georgia is trying to strike a balance between East and West but finding it hard to strengthen ties with Europe without upsetting Russia.
Even so, tensions remain high after the August 2008 war over two Moscow-backed breakaway regions. Diplomatic relations, severed after the war, have not been restored and Russia still controls the two separatist-minded regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
There is a very special esteem in which Russia holds Georgia: Joseph Stalin hailed from there. That's an extremely dim view ground into the Russian collective memory. No telling what will happen if Georgia gets too irritating.
No room for much tolerance with a special love like that.