You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim, da do da do...
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim, da do da do...
Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim"
And it seems to me, you don't mess around with Vladimir Putin either. Georgia tried and look what they got.
Georgia? Georgia, you say? Weren't the big, bad Russians the ones who started this? No. Not even close. The problem is that the media won't let you remember it was Georgia who tried to kick Russia in the ass.
Emphasis added. Lets see, you pull a fast one on the people of South Ossetia, a region where Georgians are actually a minority and people or Russian descent are the majority, by telling them "we're not shooting," then you blow their region to smithereens, killing some Russian soldiers along the way, and you expected Vladi to respond how?
And it seems to me, you don't mess around with Vladimir Putin either. Georgia tried and look what they got.
Georgia? Georgia, you say? Weren't the big, bad Russians the ones who started this? No. Not even close. The problem is that the media won't let you remember it was Georgia who tried to kick Russia in the ass.
It looks, in retrospect, like a ruse that went badly wrong. After days of
heavy skirmishing between Georgian troops and Russian-backed separatist
militias in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia, Mikhail Saakashvili,
the Georgian President, went on television on Thursday evening to announce
that he had ordered an immediate unilateral ceasefire.
Just hours later his troops began an all-out offensive with tanks and rockets to “restore constitutional order” to a region that won de facto independence in a vicious civil war that subsided in 1992.
From that moment events began to spiral out of control. As the 70,000 citizens of a self-styled republic of 2,500 square kilometres (965 square miles) huddled in their basements, Georgian troops seized a dozen villages and bombarded the capital, Tskhinvali, with air strikes, missiles and tank movements that left much of it destroyed.
Major-General Marat Kulakhmetov, the commander of a small force of Russian
peacekeepers in Tskhinvali, said: “Heavy artillery shelling conducted for
several hours has practically demolished the town,” The South Ossetians used
grenade launchers to hit back against Georgia’s heavy military vehicles, and
appealed for help from Russia, the country that has propped up the
impoverished republic despite Moscow’s official support for Georgia’s
territorial integrity.
Emphasis added. Lets see, you pull a fast one on the people of South Ossetia, a region where Georgians are actually a minority and people or Russian descent are the majority, by telling them "we're not shooting," then you blow their region to smithereens, killing some Russian soldiers along the way, and you expected Vladi to respond how?
