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Europe’s, U.S. Media Divided in Evaluation of Georgia’s Conflict
The movement of Russia’s forces outside South Ossetia and fighting in Georgia are the highlights of the better part of the western media. Of interest is that the evaluation of the U.S. and Europe’s newspapers differs materially.
The U.S. editions predictably lash out at Russia, blaming imperial ambitions on Moscow. The Walt Street Journal’s article headlined Vladimir Bonaparte says: “The farther Russia’s tanks roll into Georgia, the more the world is beginning to see the reality of Vladimir Putin’s Napoleonic ambitions.”
After completing the authoritarian transition as prime minister with a figurehead president, Putin endeavors “to reassert Russian dominance in Eurasia,” the edition warns, calling on the West “to draw a line at Georgia” and specifying that “who fired the first shot last week” doesn’t matter actually, as Moscow uses the issue of Georgia’s breakaway provinces to crush Georgia’s military and, perhaps, to overthrow the democratically elected government there.
“The alliance needs to respond forcefully, and it can start today,” The Wall Street said and the tone of comments at The Washington Post is similar. That newspaper even urged to reconsider decision for choosing Sochi for 2014 Winter Olympics.
But Europe is far less hawkish. According to Britain’s Guardian, the actual aim of Russia’s air attacks is to terrify to death residents of independent Georgia and to show that Moscow rather than Washington or NATO is the place of the actual military force is in the region. But should Russia’s tanks enter Tbilisy, it would be a big strategic miscalculation, The Guardian specified, pointing out that this action would entail international response. But Moscow would hardly give such pleasure to Saakashvili, the newspaper forecasted.
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