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“We did everything to avoid the war” — South Ossetian president
Published: 08 August, 2010, 01:04
Edited: 09 August, 2010, 23:32
TAGS: Conflict, Military, Georgia, Ossetian War
On the second anniversary of the war in South Ossetia, the country’s president, Eduard Kokoity, spoke exclusively to RT, sharing his experience of the conflict.
He said South Ossetia was doing everything possible to avoid the worst scenario of events, but Georgia showed no signs of wrapping up the military operation against South Ossetia.
“As the supreme commander-in-chief for 40 minutes [after Georgia’s first attack], I wasn’t giving the order to counter fire, even though we knew the attack was being prepared,” Kokoity told RT. “We did not even announce mobilization so that the international community would not blame South Ossetia for provoking and aggravating the situation. We only called to arms on the [August 8].”
07.08.2010, 09:58
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South Ossetia, the country’s president, Eduard Kokoity, in his interview briefly mentioned something which is of a ostentatious planetary importance and that is ON THE 8TH OF AUGUST 2008 THE WORLD CEASED ITS UNIPOARITY AND ASSUMED MULTIPOLARITY and the evil’s mission was crushed and buried forever. So far Russia singlehandedly saved the World at least twice, the first one from the evil Fascist Nazism 65 years ago and the second one from the evil America and its NAziTo allies only 2 years ago. Had America been successful with the South Ossetian annihilation, the World would have seen many more Yugoslavia’s and Iraqi’s model of destructions around the Planet.
There should be no doubt at all about what happened in South Ossetia that August 8m 2008. If Russia had not interfered militarily, the Ossetian people would have been driven from the homes north to Russia and their identity wiped off the map. It's to Russia's credit that they did not play the game of treacherous abandonment as expected by Saakashvili and his smiling American advisors. The counter strike by the Russian 58th Army came as a total shock to the Americans hiding in the shadows while encouraging Saakasvili's adventurism.
According to at least one eye witness in South Ossetia, Americans were not just hiding in the shadows. Some were involved in the shooting. Shameful. A few of us back home realized what was happening only when we abandoned our local news sources and searched through international news outlets. No doubt there are some American families who will never hear the truth about what happened to their sons or husbands who died "overseas somewhere". I agree the counter strike by the Russian army was a shock to the evil plotters in Washington D.C. They had to change their battle plans from proxy warfare to propaganda and financial warfare.