Russia Ignores Agreement As Russia Lawmakers Recognize Breakaway Regions

In several stories that I have been reading around the internet it has become obvious that the Russians have absolutely no intention of doing anything to abide by their agreement, beyond what "they" wish to do.
This incident has shown the world that Russia will not sit by, as "We" encourage their former republics to join NATO, place missiles on their doorsteps, and injure their interests in "their" part of the world. Their Putin doctrine, is similar to our Monroe doctrine, and should be considered in everything we do to or with Russia.

Bush has turned a formerly docile ex-Cold war enemy, into a resurgent Cold war II enemy, all because we poked our finger in the eye of the Russian bear at every opportunity, and made sure they wallowed in their failure, as we rejoiced in our victory over them. How nice, and now we shall have to decide if we really want to continue down this path, or try something less drastic, to try and keep them as less then an enemy, even if they can never be friends.

The tragedy of this latest incident in Georgia is that if we intend on making Russia and enemy once again, then we messed up, as we should have at least lent enough assistance to bloody the Russians nose. Now I am not advocating that course of action, but obviously those in power want to Russia as an enemy, so they should have at least let them "know" that "We" would not allow them to act as they did without military repercussions.

Today the story at Yahoo News, has the Pentagon saying that Russia is still not honoring its ceasefire agreement with Georgia and continues to maintain a "large presence" of troops in the former Soviet republic.

"They are still not living up to the terms of the ceasefire agreement" which Moscow signed with Tbilisi more than a week ago, said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.

"They are failing to live up to and honor the terms of the agreement," he said, adding that "there continues to be a large presence of Russian forces in Georgia."

Pressure has steadily built on Moscow, which sent tanks and troops into Georgian territory in response to a Georgian offensive on August 7 to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia, to adhere to the French-brokered peace agreement.

Russia withdrew tanks, artillery and hundreds of troops from their most advanced positions in Georgia on Friday, saying it had fulfilled all obligations under the agreement. But as of late Sunday Russian troops still controlled access to the key port of Poti located south of the Moscow-backed rebel region of Abkhazia, and had established other checkpoints around South Ossetia, where the conflict began.

European countries on Monday urged Russia to reject calls to recognise the independence of two Georgian breakaway regions, warning it would only ratchet up tensions in the battle-scarred region.

France, which announced it will convene a special European summit on the crisis in Georgia on September 1, expressed "concern" Monday about reports of looting, intimidation and destruction of homes in South Ossetia.


It is being reported that minutes ago, Russia's parliament unanimously approved resolutions on calling for the recognition of two rebel regions of Georgia as independent states, a move likely to worsen already strained relations with the West.

Both houses of Russia's parliament, controlled by Kremlin loyalists, swiftly endorsed non-binding resolutions urging President Dmitry Medvedev to recognize the pro-Moscow breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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