Pave: Uncondemnable IV

Le jour 472 de Sarko

If I condemn, I can no longer hear both sides.

Bernard Kouchner,
French Foreign Minister, explaining why what is wrong
has equal standing with what is right
PARIS August 11, 2008 (M&C)

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Отморозки тем отличаются от нормальных людей, что когда они чувствуют запах крови, их очень трудно остановить, и тогда приходится прибегать к хирургическим методам.

[Morons differ from normal people, when they smell blood it is very hard to stop them, thus surgical (military) methods are required.]

Dmitry Medvedev,
President of Russia and lap-dummy of Mr. Putin,
characterizing the Georgians or the Georgian government
while missing the glaring self-irony
MOSCOW August 12, 2008 (RIA Novosti)

BUILDING THE NEW EVIL EMPIRE
Just Like The Old Evil Empire
Minus The Marxist Mumbo Jumbo

GEORGIA MUST BE PUNISHED - MEDVEDEV
VLADIKAVKZ, Russia August 19, 2008 (news.com.au)

RUSSIA WARNS MOLDOVA AGAINST "GEORGIAN MISTAKE"

SOCHI, Russia August 25, 2008 (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned ex-Soviet Moldova on Monday against repeating Georgia's mistake of trying to use force to seize back control of a breakaway region.

Russia sent peacekeepers to Moldova in the early 1990s to end a conflict between Chisinau and its breakaway Transdniestria region and is trying to mediate a deal between the two sides.

Transdniestria, one of a number of "frozen conflicts" on the territory of the former Soviet Union, mirrored the standoff between Georgia and its rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia until they erupted in war earlier this month.

RUSSIA CONDEMNED FOR RECOGNIZING REBEL REGIONS
MOSCOW August 26, 2008 (CNN)

MEDVEDEV THREATENS MILITARY RESPONSE TO US SHIELD
August 26, 2008 (Irish Times)

RUSSIA ADOPTS BLUSTERY TONE SET BY ENVOY
MOSCOW August 27, 2008 (NYT)

RUSSIAN WARSHIPS SENT TO ABKHAZIA
August 28, 2008 (Aljazeera)

ANY COUNTRY COULD BE NEXT,
WARNS UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT

August 28, 2008 (Guardian) - Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko, could not have put it more starkly. Condemning Russia's decision to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Georgia's two separatist regions, Yushchenko warned yesterday:

Any nation could be next.

In fact, Yushchenko was articulating what is now a commonplace in diplomatic circles: that having successfully "done" Georgia, the Kremlin might now turn its attention to Ukraine - and in particular its Russian-speaking region of Crimea.

France's foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said the same thing:

It is very dangerous ... there are other objectives that one can suppose are objectives for Russia, in particular the Crimea, Ukraine and Moldova,

PFFT (What is this?): Morons run amok 4½ | EU tongue cluck deterrence 3 | Rayonnement français 0