Митяй wrote:Герасим wrote:Самое забавное, как раскочегарилось CNN. Тема #1... В разительное отличие от предыдущих дней, в коии собственно всё развивалось. Когда молчали, цедя редкие ремарки. 8-го вообще молчали. А сейчас, когда всё успокоилось...
Так ведь наконец пустили посмотреть. Это нам простительно трындеть на форуме, пользуясь материалами блогов и ленты вру.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gfKS ... wD92H0NE80
Associated Press writer Musa Sadulayev contributed to this report
Не думаю, что это очень обьективный репортаж. Но то, что ужасы грузинской бомбёжки осетинскими властями были преувеличены -- было и так понятно. Кто бы в данном случае не преувеличивал... Вы хоть грузинские сводки почитайте.
Кстати, о штурме Цхинвали и его победоносности и небывалом успехе -- грузинский реляций было достаточно. Думается американцы знали о мишиных намерениях и одобрили их. А CNN, наверное, консультируется с Белым Домом и Госдепом по горячим темам. Другого обьяснения в голову не приходит.
The Mystery Behind the Georgian Invasion
In this simple chronicle, there is something quite mysterious: Why did the Georgians choose to invade South Ossetia on Thursday night? There had been a great deal of shelling by the South Ossetians of Georgian villages for the previous three nights, but while possibly more intense than usual, artillery exchanges were routine. The Georgians might not have fought well, but they committed fairly substantial forces that must have taken at the very least several days to deploy and supply. Georgia’s move was deliberate.
The United States is Georgia’s closest ally. It maintained about 130 military advisers in Georgia, along with civilian advisers, contractors involved in all aspects of the Georgian government and people doing business in Georgia. It is inconceivable that the Americans were unaware of Georgia’s mobilization and intentions. It is also inconceivable that the Americans were unaware that the Russians had deployed substantial forces on the South Ossetian frontier. U.S. technical intelligence, from satellite imagery and signals intelligence to unmanned aerial vehicles, could not miss the fact that thousands of Russian troops were moving to forward positions. The Russians clearly knew the Georgians were ready to move. How could the United States not be aware of the Russians? Indeed, given the posture of Russian troops, how could intelligence analysts have missed the possibility that t he Russians had laid a trap, hoping for a Georgian invasion to justify its own counterattack?
It is very difficult to imagine that the Georgians launched their attack against U.S. wishes. The Georgians rely on the United States, and they were in no position to defy it. This leaves two possibilities. The first is a massive breakdown in intelligence, in which the United States either was unaware of the existence of Russian forces, or knew of the Russian forces but — along with the Georgians — miscalculated Russia’s intentions. The United States, along with other countries, has viewed Russia through the prism of the 1990s, when the Russian military was in shambles and the Russian government was paralyzed. The United States has not seen Russia make a decisive military move beyond its borders since the Afghan war of the 1970s-1980s. The Russians had systematically avoided such moves for years. The United States had assumed that the Russians would not risk the consequences of an invasion.
http://kuzimama.livejournal.com/277969.html?#cutid1
