tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post4701869877194974255..comments2023-10-06T10:10:06.982-04:00Comments on La Russophobe: More Barbaric Russian Aggression in GeorgiaLa Russophobehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-91354480240751961842008-04-22T12:17:00.000-04:002008-04-22T12:17:00.000-04:00The BBC reported this morning that, the video evid...The BBC reported this morning that, the video evidence notwithstanding, Russia is claiming the drone was shot down by the Abkhaz rebels. With Mig-29s, they must be the best-armed armed rebels in the world! Moscow is claiming -- as are the rebels -- that Abkhazia shot down the drone using SAMs, again contradicting the physical evidence the Georgians have been able to produce of wreckage of a Soviet-era air-to-air missile. <BR/><BR/>Molotov bragged when interviewed in the early 1970s that Tsarist Russian imperial expansion was good because it provided the Soviet Union with a sizeable amount of "liberated" territory to start with. Woe to those countries who are condemned to sharing a common border with Russia, then as now.Tomekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00589651700779715876noreply@blogger.com