Georgia Wins the 2008 War with Russia

Cook

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A degree of scepticism with regard to government statements is probably healthy Airman, but if you are going to apply it, it’s best to be consistent about it.

Accepting Russian government claims ahead of American Government claims doesn’t to me seem like a healthy analysis of the sources of your information. Especially when the claims of the Russian government controlled media are inconsistent with operational procedure (see my post #36).
 

Old Airman

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A degree of scepticism with regard to government statements is probably healthy Airman, but if you are going to apply it, it’s best to be consistent about it.
I'm trying to, but nobody's perfect.
Accepting Russian government claims ahead of American Government claims doesn’t to me seem like a healthy analysis of the sources of your information.
You make a very typical mistake (with my usual benefit of a doubt I consider it a mistake, not a deliberate trick) of not making a proper distinction between not blindly following American claim and believing the Russian one. As I wrote, American advisers had been in Georgia officially, so it does not strike me as outlandish that some of them might lose their documents in hastily escape when Georgian army ceased to exist. Besides, this war is a pretty rare case when Russian claims were much closer to reality (as revealed in Western publications "for geeks and analysts", as well as official EU report) than dirty wave of lies raised by British and American media in August 2008 (I have to say that German, French and Israeli coverage I tried to follow was much more balanced or, should I say, less hysteric).
 

Cook

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American advisers had been in Georgia officially, so it does not strike me as outlandish that some of them might lose their documents in hastily escape when Georgian army ceased to exist.

Just a reminder that carrying any such documentation at all would have violated Opsec. Military advisers are generally of a better quality than “the usual grunt” so even less likely to do that type of thing.
 
Old Airman, between defending the Serbian crimes in the 1990s by whining about alleged bias, accusing the Tibetans of launching ethnic progroms and the bit about Turk potentially gang raping women and underage boys in Georgia I can see no further reason not to put you on my ignore list.

Thank you for your contribution to this thread. Most enlightening.
 
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