{"id":1112,"date":"2008-08-08T18:53:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T23:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/08\/georgia-on-my-mind.html"},"modified":"2018-10-06T11:17:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T16:17:36","slug":"georgia-on-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/georgia-on-my-mind.html","title":{"rendered":"Georgia on my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgian&#8217;s are not in a good position. The U.S. really cannot help them. Geographically they simply live where Russia is going to do what they want. In the end I think they are going to have to realize that Russia has annexed their province and to fight them will turn out to be suicide. They better now hope the Russian&#8217;s don&#8217;t use this war as an excuse to re-annex all of Georgia. All of this of course will further deteriorate Russia&#8217;s relations with the U.S. Other former USSR countries have similar problems and might have similar fates they also have geographical areas in their sovereign nations that are now mostly populated by Russians.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121122181906\/http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,399962,00.html\">FOXNews.com &#8211; U.S. Calls for Russia to Halt Attacks as Fighting in Breakaway Georgia Province Escalates &#8211; International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is expected to declare martial law within hours, according to the Georgian security council chief, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Russia Friday to halt attacks in South Ossetia, after Georgian troops entered the breakaway province in an attempt to crush separatist forces seeking control.<\/p>\n<p>Rice&#8217;s announcement came as the European Union was working on a cease-fire with Georgia and South Ossetia separatists to end the violent conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched a surprise military offensive to retake South Ossetia and reportedly killed hundreds of people, triggering a ferocious counterattack from Russia that threatened to plunge the region into full-scale war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgian&#8217;s are not in a good position. The U.S. really cannot help them. Geographically they simply live where Russia is going to do what they want. In the end I think they are going to have to realize that Russia has annexed their province and to fight them will turn out to be suicide. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[138,84,114,117],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russiagog","tag-freedoms-and-liberties","tag-gog","tag-logic","tag-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-hW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}