IFC World Cup [ Match update --> Russia Vs Georgia ]

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Russia Vs Georgia
Venue : Georgia

Current Scenario
Georgian troops recently launched an aerial bombardment and ground attack on its separatist province of South Ossetia . South Ossetians want to join up with their ethnic brethren in North Ossetia, an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation. Seeing this as an act of aggression Russia launched bombing raids against Georgia, vowing to defend its citizens. More than half of South Ossetia's citizens are said to have taken up Moscow's offer of a Russian passport. Many believe that "the hypocrisy of the international community knows no bounds for if the West forced the issue of Kosovar independence then the independence of South Ossetia should also be on the cards."

[ Brethren is the plural form of "Brothers" , mainly used in Christianity ]

In Detail
Georgia is a strategic so-called democracy in the Caucasus since the 2003 US-engineered Rose Revolution, which was a bloodless revolution to throw the then President Shevardnadze.
Georgia desperately wants to be a part of NATO. It provides the US with 2,000 troops in Iraq & also wants to be part of US missile defense shield. It hosts a stretch of the BTC pipeline, primarily belonging to Russia. Basically, it's a US client state in the middle of the Caucasus. Maybe its name was inspired from the U.S State Georgia, formed in 1733 , who knows...

What’s the exact reason they are fighting like this. There has to be some past for something of this magnitude to happen. Well there is & Here goes the History….

History :

Origins of the conflict

"Both breakaway republics – Abkhazia and South-Ossetia are striving for a future that is independent of Georgia, but each have very different histories"

Abkhazia and Ossetia were two regions which were a part of Georgia. When Georgia was annexed by the Russian empire in 1801, it came without either of the two regions. South Ossetia, then part of a larger Ossetia region, had been absorbed into Russia 17 years before, through an agreement with the Ottoman Empire. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Georgia declared independence on May 26, 1918. Abkhazia, was incorporated separately in 1910, as Russia gradually gained control of the South Caucasus.
Later again in 1921 again Georgia fell under the Soviet’s complete control .
The South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast was created in 1922 after the Soviet occupation of Georgia. Right from that date, they were continuously fighting opposing each others’ policies.

[ Autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union were administrative units created for a number of smaller nations, which were given autonomy within the republics of the Soviet Union ]

On November 10, 1989, the South Ossetian Supreme Soviet approved a decision to unite South Ossetia with the North Ossetian Soviet Socialist Republic, which is a part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. However, a day later, the Georgian Supreme Court revoked the decision and on 23 November, thousands of Georgian nationalists led by Zviad and other opposition leaders marched to Tskhinvali, which is the South Ossetian capital, to hold a meeting there, which finally ended in communal clashes between them. On 20 September 1990, the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast declared independence as the South Ossetian Democratic Soviet Republic, appealing to Moscow to recognise it as an independent subject of the Soviet Union.
The independence has not been diplomatically recognized by any member of the United Nations – which continues to regard South Ossetia as part of Georgia .

Some consider Mikheil Saakashvili ( the Georgian president , implicated in a few monstrous corruption scandals ) thought the Beijing Olympics gave him a fabulous opening to solve the problems Georgia has with separatist South Ossetia, since 1989, for that matter. Most claim he staged a surprise invasion supported by the US, though there are some who say the opposite that the Russians attacked first .
North Ossetia is completely in Russia and South Ossetia is in Georgia, both just separated by a thin border. It is a situation wherein these 82,000 people ( S.Ossetia ), don't want independence. But they just want to unite with North Ossetia, which is in Russia. From a voting poll conducted , 99% voted for union with North Ossetia and Russia. But this was totally ignored by Georgia, the US, and in Europe.
It is also said that the US troops had just finished teaching Georgians how to ethnically cleanse an area, which was a part of the "Georgian-US Immediate Response 2008 Military Exercises." More than 2,000 civilians were killed in this attack & also destroyed the capital, Tskhinvali, killed 10 Russian peacekeepers, at least, provoked an exodus of 35,000 people to North Ossetia.

[ Exodus is a journey by a large group of people to escape from a hostile environment ]

People claimed this attack by Georgia was made to profit from the spotlight being mainly on the Olympics & also since the Bush administration was shortly on their way out .
The Georgian President is already being blamed by the Georgian opposition for this reckless adventure of ignoring the fact that US badly needs Russia to solve the Iranian nuclear dossier. And he's also being blamed because he ignored that Europe is in the middle of a very complex negotiation with Russia for access to Russian gas ( the whole of Europe depends on Russian gas )

The main reason Russians claim is that Russian citizens were killed in this attack [ a major percentage of the population of South Ossetia is ethnically Russian ! ] Yes..true.. It is said that Russia was planning to make a re-union to form the U.S.S.R again to level themselves to the present superpower - U.S . Having this in agenda, they started issuing Russian passports to S.Ossetian citizens some time back. And hence this gave them a good platform to attack Georgia. If that is the plan, well then its good news for countries like India ( Good friends of the Russians ) As some say, whatever the reason be, U.S have always taken sides with countries like Pakistan. But after the dissolution of the U.S.S.R, India was left helpless without their major support, which was & is a major setback till today .

But apart from taking sides in this issue, the rise of another superpower is expected to boost the world economy and at the same time bring more m-a-y-h-e-m .

[ Mayhem means violent and needless disturbance ]

& what I mean to say is that, there is no need for a comet or some bulb-headed Alien race to destroy our mother Earth. People like these who think “Violence is the mother of all solutions” are more than enough to destroy every trace of happiness prevailing in every nook & corner of our planet , which is exactly a “dead planet”

[ A dead planet is a ….. Er.., Well, if this is the case & we are not going to do anything about it , you are going to see it anyway….] :(