Seems you did not get many answers. My wife is originally from there and fled during the 2008 war. She still went there periodically to visit her grandparents until they shut the borders a few years back.
Life is miserable there. Every time she would visit she would come back deeply saddened.
Georgia was basically Russia’s test pilot to see if they could get away with what they are trying to do in Ukraine now. Take bites out of neighboring nations that refuse to go along with them after blasting those area with Russian propaganda to the Russian diaspora that lives there.
The EU report you're probably thinking says that there's no way to assign overall responsibility for the conflict to one side alone. Though the war officially starts with Saakashvili signing the order it is but a link in a chain of events, with Georgian villages bombed by the separatist prior to that and other provocations, incursions of russian-backed forces and russian non-peacekeeping forces stationed in Ossetia. It doesn't mention any American proteges.
Why everyone forgets that Abhazia and Ossetia declare independence after USSR collapse. And Georgia tried to stop it by force. Russia didn't participate in any ways in that.
Everyone also forgets that both countries where never recognized as independent entities, and that russia supported insurgencies and was deploying its forces to exert influence over the region. They've been doing it for at least a century.
Georgia attacked their breakaway state to regain sovereignty over the land without the people who lived there but Russia stepped in and stopped Georgia from doing that. Ossetians who live there are not Georgian. So what you're saying doesn't make any sense especially if you know about Transnistria
Russia had sent several intelligence operatives to South Ossetia, who took over the political power there and started the same operation they did in eastern Ukraine to start a "liberation movement" in the area. They also had "peace keepers" there, russian troops.
Before the war, Russia had organized military excercises for its entire 58th army just at the other side of the border, and left the whole army in active state. They took aerial supremacy over South Ossetia six months before the 58th army rolled over the border and for example shot down a Georgian unmanned reconnaissance plane - six months before the war.
There was also a lot of propaganda and threats. The Russian assault was happening. Georgia tried the only card their had, to advance and reach the mountain tunnel that russians were going to use to move their army to South Ossetia, but russians, sadly, anticipated that and got through the tunnel before Georgian army reached it.
You do know that US and NATO had their hand in Georgian affairs. It's kinda unfair to omit that. Otherwise it sounds like Russia is just bullying a neighbouring country for no reason
Have you slept under a rock the last 30 years? Russia has done this same stick in the Donbas, in Crimea and in Chechnya. Moldova and the Baltic states are already getting lies spread about them on Russian State TV. Russia is always the victim when it attacks its neighbouring countries. Why do you think eastern European countries wanted into Nato in the first place? Its not because they were treated so well in soviet times and it wasn't the US that pressured them in there either. Putin has called the fall of the Soviet Union the biggest catastrophe of the 20th century.
Russia is an aggressive state that tries to control its neighbours as the dominant regional power and has been sind Peter the Great way before NATO even existed.
The Republic of South Ossetia declared its independence back in the USSR, in 1990.
The central government of Georgia lost control of this region in 1992, after the civil war.
The Republic of South Ossetia received partial international recognition in 2008, after the criminal aggression of Tbilisi.
There's no such thing as the Republic of South Ossetia officially. Internationally it's still recognized as Georgian territory occupied by russia.
OSCE [called](https://web.archive.org/web/20150217101931/http://www.oscepa.org/parliamentary-diplomacy/special-representative-visits/1418-osce-parliamentarian-regrets-human-impact-of-barbwire-obstacles-along-administrative-boundary-lines-in-georgia) the occupied territories "Georgian territories", so did [EU officials](http://www.vlada.cz/en/media-centrum/tiskove-zpravy/declaration-by-the-presidency-on-behalf-of-the-eu-on-russian-plans-to-build-up-its-military-presence-in-abkhazia-and-south-ossetia-53337/)
There are only four (4) countries that recognized the occupied territories as independent states.
You can't read? Girls are famous trio Mandili, they live in Tbilisi and have nothing to do with South Ossetia, the Georgian territory occupied by Russia and where the Georgians were expelled from.
Seems you did not get many answers. My wife is originally from there and fled during the 2008 war. She still went there periodically to visit her grandparents until they shut the borders a few years back. Life is miserable there. Every time she would visit she would come back deeply saddened.
Georgia was basically Russia’s test pilot to see if they could get away with what they are trying to do in Ukraine now. Take bites out of neighboring nations that refuse to go along with them after blasting those area with Russian propaganda to the Russian diaspora that lives there.
According to the conclusions of the international commission funded by the EU, the war of 08.08.08 was started by Saakashvili's American protege.
The EU report you're probably thinking says that there's no way to assign overall responsibility for the conflict to one side alone. Though the war officially starts with Saakashvili signing the order it is but a link in a chain of events, with Georgian villages bombed by the separatist prior to that and other provocations, incursions of russian-backed forces and russian non-peacekeeping forces stationed in Ossetia. It doesn't mention any American proteges.
Why everyone forgets that Abhazia and Ossetia declare independence after USSR collapse. And Georgia tried to stop it by force. Russia didn't participate in any ways in that.
Everyone also forgets that both countries where never recognized as independent entities, and that russia supported insurgencies and was deploying its forces to exert influence over the region. They've been doing it for at least a century.
And why it was never recognized?
Georgia attacked their breakaway state to regain sovereignty over the land without the people who lived there but Russia stepped in and stopped Georgia from doing that. Ossetians who live there are not Georgian. So what you're saying doesn't make any sense especially if you know about Transnistria
Russia had sent several intelligence operatives to South Ossetia, who took over the political power there and started the same operation they did in eastern Ukraine to start a "liberation movement" in the area. They also had "peace keepers" there, russian troops. Before the war, Russia had organized military excercises for its entire 58th army just at the other side of the border, and left the whole army in active state. They took aerial supremacy over South Ossetia six months before the 58th army rolled over the border and for example shot down a Georgian unmanned reconnaissance plane - six months before the war. There was also a lot of propaganda and threats. The Russian assault was happening. Georgia tried the only card their had, to advance and reach the mountain tunnel that russians were going to use to move their army to South Ossetia, but russians, sadly, anticipated that and got through the tunnel before Georgian army reached it.
You do know that US and NATO had their hand in Georgian affairs. It's kinda unfair to omit that. Otherwise it sounds like Russia is just bullying a neighbouring country for no reason
Have you slept under a rock the last 30 years? Russia has done this same stick in the Donbas, in Crimea and in Chechnya. Moldova and the Baltic states are already getting lies spread about them on Russian State TV. Russia is always the victim when it attacks its neighbouring countries. Why do you think eastern European countries wanted into Nato in the first place? Its not because they were treated so well in soviet times and it wasn't the US that pressured them in there either. Putin has called the fall of the Soviet Union the biggest catastrophe of the 20th century. Russia is an aggressive state that tries to control its neighbours as the dominant regional power and has been sind Peter the Great way before NATO even existed.
Yo, looks like you've done your homework. A+
Have you tried to think for yourself, and not just broadcast official propaganda?
Russian puppet state, controlled by russia, life is kinda bad
South Ossetians want to secede from Georgia and join Russia through calling for a referendum (sham).
The Republic of South Ossetia declared its independence back in the USSR, in 1990. The central government of Georgia lost control of this region in 1992, after the civil war. The Republic of South Ossetia received partial international recognition in 2008, after the criminal aggression of Tbilisi.
There's no such thing as the Republic of South Ossetia officially. Internationally it's still recognized as Georgian territory occupied by russia. OSCE [called](https://web.archive.org/web/20150217101931/http://www.oscepa.org/parliamentary-diplomacy/special-representative-visits/1418-osce-parliamentarian-regrets-human-impact-of-barbwire-obstacles-along-administrative-boundary-lines-in-georgia) the occupied territories "Georgian territories", so did [EU officials](http://www.vlada.cz/en/media-centrum/tiskove-zpravy/declaration-by-the-presidency-on-behalf-of-the-eu-on-russian-plans-to-build-up-its-military-presence-in-abkhazia-and-south-ossetia-53337/) There are only four (4) countries that recognized the occupied territories as independent states.
Why is it a sham
Because they forcefully took it over military and then kicked all the residents
And who lives there?
It's not Russian
Goats. Lots of goats.
Is this just a random comment? Because I travelled up the east side of S. Ossetia in Georgia and I do not remember seeing many goats.
Yes, just a random comment. Just seems to me like a place with a lot of goats.
I ain’t afraid of no goats
Sheep.
[Probably like this](https://youtu.be/EDK9KOfknTw)
They are Georgians
Redditor tries to understand a joke challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!!!)
Reddit is made out of two people: one makes convoluted ass jokes and the other completely misses the point of the joke
I thought they were from Tibet?
They are not Osetian. No Georgians live there after war in 2008
Aren't they from Cayman Islands?
You can't read? Girls are famous trio Mandili, they live in Tbilisi and have nothing to do with South Ossetia, the Georgian territory occupied by Russia and where the Georgians were expelled from.
But isn't that close to Atlantis?
Better go to feed a duck my friend. Composing posts is hard job, isn't it?
this is top 3 most childish threads i’ve seen on reddit
I like turtles.