SubscribeRussian Paper Claims Saakashvili Is Crazy
From Kommersant Moscow:
[KM caption:] Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili chews his tie.
Psychiatrists Made Diagnosis for Saakashvili
Aug. 19, 2008
Mikheil Saakashvili feels severe stress and cannot control himself, Prof Farid Safuanov from Serbsky Institute of Social and Forensic Psychiatry concluded based on a few incidents broadcast by TV, Interfax reported.
Professor Safuanov made diagnosis based on the BBC TV broadcast. In the first episode, Saakashvili sits in the office in front of the flags of Georgia and EU, chewing his tie as if oblivious of camera.
Saakashvili’s performance during August 11 visit to Gori is also interesting. During the interview, Saakashvili abruptly looked up to the sky, panicked and sprinted from his guards. The guards finally managed to catch up with scared president, knock him down to the ground and then push him to the armored car.
The emotional exhaustion of extreme extent and emotional instability are the reasons of such behavior, according to Safuanov. Any person may make uncontrolled movements in time of severe stress, but for the president, of course, Safuanov said.
And the same source, Kommersant, also has this report:
Georgia’s Special Service Plots Terrorist Actions in Russia
Aug. 19, 2008
The RF Federal Security Service (FSB) has the information that Georgia’s special services are plotting terrorist actions on Russia’s soil, said Alexander Bortnikov, who heads Russia’s FSB and National Antiterrorist Committee.
Bortnikov said he had ordered to take all necessary actions to ensure antiterrorist protection of public authorities, the facilities of transport, industry, power engineering, life support and the places where the people tend to crowd, Mayak broadcaster reported.
First of all these actions are to be executed in the South Federal District, Bornikov pointed out.
Russia’s PM Vladimir Putin signed earlier the ruling that sets limits on crossing Russia’s border with Georgia and Azerbaijan. The document specifies actions aimed at preventing penetration of foreign terrorist organizations to Russia, the delivery of weapons and subversive devices via Russia’s borders.
This is the same kind of propaganda that the bad old Soviet Union used to put out on a daily basis.
What exactly has changed?
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August 20th, 2008 at 10:36 am
If crazy was any reason to invade another country, Iran would have been long ago.
He’s not crazy. He’s just a lawyer from New York City. There’s a difference.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
from where do u know how ussr propoganda looked like?
ive seen both footages, and the first time i heard about him running from helicopters was in the uk times article, which discusses what exactly happened in that conflict.
talking about propoganda i want u to look at this footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8XI2Chc6uQ
keep in mind this is right after a commercial break, so what the reporter said to those 2 women trying to express freedom of a voice is a lie…
you talk about georgians now being blocked from entering to russia… as u hear those 2 women escape the war by fleeing to Russia.
lately the US embassador to russia has stated that the USA was against georgia intrusion of south ossetya, funnily enough everyone still thinks russia was the one to attack georgia. fact is 1k+ of ppl died in SO, and russian soldiers died pushing georgian forces out. in fact if you do your research, georgia was so unprepared that russia will defend it’s peacekeepers that they fled leaving supplies, and even tanks as war tropheys for russian troops. it was a badly managed invasion, that miserably failed. russia pushed them back into their own land, and is now leaving the area, no one is talking about challanging georgia’s territorial rights, and if they are, they are certainly not being very loud about it. the US embassador was unhappy that russian entered georgia
other fun facts: USA allegedly reports its humvees being stolen by russian troops, they were infact intercepted by russian troops when a group of 20 georgian troops was “going to get relief supplies” which turned out to be weaponry, the humvees did not read more then 400 km each on their meter, and still had Property of the USA stickers on them. Germany is currently having a confuzling situation of its own, somehow managing to find its weapons on georgian SWAT teams in videos that entered south ossetya, those weapons known to not be legally sold by german manufacturers. basically they used illegally acquired weapons.
PLEASE before pointing fingers and screaming: USSR is back and never actually left, atleast do your research to know what you are talking about. I have gone as far as finding analysis of the public blog systems in Russia to find out what actual people are saying, they seem to be around 95% pretty outraged by the whole situation, this includes people who changed their minds as information started arriving about what happened.
PLEASE do your research, because when people jump on a wagon, without digging a little bit deeper to know what’s up, you get what i consider propoganda - wagons filled with ignorant infromation medias.
And I want you to take this into consideration, if the USA had peacekeeping troops in a neighbooring country, and all of the sudden that country was basically attacked, with thousands of people killed, by another government, brutally killing hundreds if not thousands of people (this fact is not yet SOLID, SO claims the number to be above 1k, russia counting already above 2k), and in the process attacking your troops. would you react? and would you stop once that piece of land seemed to be clear but with enemy forces continueing fire while pusing them selves back? knowing your country and how it has managed to attack countries based on extremists being from those general areas, can you say that you would not just stay in the invaders country to try keep control?
Now also ANOTHER fun fact that pops up, georgian government and military invited PR proffesionals from other countries to manage how this was presented to the world, and they still manage to show off a pretty weird acting president. if sadam was acting liek that… would fox/cnn not over-analize how he is breaking down and cant lead a country? i personally think what happened was a criminal act, and I am glad that as the women in the video pointed out, that russian peacekeepers and later troops were actually there to stop the bloodshed. they sent them running back to their own country… does that not raise your eyebrow? an invader… kills hundreds/thousands and as soon as they meet some sort of real resistance (64 russian troops dead, 350 injured)(215 georgians dead as reported by the georgian government) they run away leaving something like 70 tanks behind (cant find link to make sure of number sry, english media has nothing about it), also guess whos the main donator to the georgian army these days? us government, which doesnt even support military actions taken by this country. why did the us STILL send them weapons when it was almost over? (the humvees situation) and they were against it :S dont know / beats me…
i could have just said you are ignorant and know nothing about what happened and not torture you with facts, but sry this is my first post on the topic and i just managed or lets say actually tried to know a lot more then u (which isnt even much, just liking to read the news these days, and compare them) and wanted to post it all out, so atleast i can know i did my part.
“In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance” (Henry Miller). what the modern public considers knowledge is highly questionable, letting such people as Henry be, in a pretty scary way, correct in his statements. next time you think you know something, think again.
oooo looooong. but worth it to read.