didnt i say this was going to happen?

[straydoglogic]

TweetRUSSIA today won support from China and Central Asian states in its standoff with the West over the Georgia conflict as the European Union said it was weighing sanctions against Moscow.

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev said he hoped the "united position'' of a summit of Central Asian nations would ``serve as a serious signal to those who try to turn black into white.''

The West has strongly condemned Russia's military offensive in Georgia this month and Medvedev's decision to recognise the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states.

Ratcheting up pressure on Russia, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, whose country holds the presidency of the European Union, said the 27-nation bloc was preparing sanctions on Moscow.

EU leaders meet on Monday in Brussels for an emergency summit to press demands for a further Russian withdrawal from Georgia.

"Sanctions are being considered, and many other means,'' Kouchner said in Paris.

China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan voiced support for Russia's "active role'' in resolving the conflict in Georgia, according to the draft of a joint statement released by the Kremlin.

Leaders from the countries met in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a regional group set up in 2001 to counter NATO influence in the strategic Central Asia region.

Yesterday, the Group of Seven industrialised powers strongly condemned Russia's recognition of the two rebel regions.

"We deplore Russia's excessive use of military force in Georgia and its continued occupation of parts of Georgia,'' said the statement from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.

Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith today summoned Russia's am****ador to Canberra to urge Moscow to pull its troops in Georgia back to the positions they held before the conflict began.

Smith told Am****ador Alexander Blokhin that Russia's decision to recognise South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent was unhelpful for Russia's ties with the world.

"They had a frank exchange of views,'' the spokeswoman for Smith said.

"Mr Smith stated that Australia respects the territorial integrity of Georgia and believes that Russia should abide by ceasefire arrangements and return to the positions they occupied (before the conflict began).''

Former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze warned meanwhile that Russia's recognition of the regions would boomerang on Moscow.

"They will live to regret it,'' Shevardnadze said in an interview in Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper, adding that the move would "encourage separatist movements within ethnically diverse Russia.''

Russia claims it had to act after Georgia on August 7 launched an offensive to retake South Ossetia, an attack that South Ossetia's prosecutor general said today had killed 1,692 people, according to the Interfax news agency.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier today called on Moscow to allow an international probe into the allegations of abuses.

''(Moscow) alleges that there atrocities were meted out on the South Ossetian population. Russia or South Ossetia must document whether this is the case and to what extent,'' Steinmeier told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily.

On a visit to Ukraine yesterday, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned Russia not to start a new Cold War.

But he also conceded that isolating Russia would be counterproductive because the West relied on cooperation with Moscow to tackle global problems like climate change and nuclear non-proliferation.

"The Russian president says he is not afraid of a new Cold War. We don't want one,'' Miliband said, adding: "He has a big responsibility not to start one,'' he added.

Russia has lashed out at the West for ratcheting up tensions in the Black Sea and warned that attempts to isolate Moscow could lead to an economic backlash.

Officials said they were monitoring a growing NATO naval presence in the Black Sea, as the second of three US ships sent to deliver aid arrived in Georgia.

Moscow has accused the West of using aid shipments as a cover for rearming Georgia after the Russian military surge into Georgia this month left much of the Georgian military in tatters.

"Certainly some measures of precaution are being taken,'' said a spokesman for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov.

"It's not a common practice to deliver humanitarian aid using battleships.''

In a reminder of Russia's energy muscle, he also warned against trying to isolate Moscow.

"Any attempts to jeopardise this atmosphere of cooperation ... would not only (have) a negative impact for Russia but will definitely harm the economic interests of those states,'' Peskov said.

Russia moved its own naval forces to the Abkhaz port of Sukhumi, where they got a rapturous reception from Abkhaz leader Sergei Bagapsh.

In Tbilisi, the secretary of the Georgian national security council, Alexander Lomaia, said Russian troops would leave the key Black Sea port of Poti today or tomorrow "as a result of international pressure.''

No confirmation of such a move was forthcoming from the Russian side.

In the Georgian port of Batumi, the second of three ships sent by Washington arrived with aid for some of the 100,000 people that the UN refugee agency estimates have been displaced in the conflict.

[FUZO]

TweetTHIS IS WHAT I THINK IOF CHINA "FUZO TAKING HIS MORNING DUMP WHILE WIPING HIS AZZ WITH THE WASHING POST AND THE NEW YOUR TIMES AND MSNBC,CNN. DOWN WITH OBAMA FOX RULES

[straydoglogic]

Tweetwow...if china were to go against us our country would go up in flames.....we are economicaly bound to them...

[Klash]

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wow...if china were to go against us our country would go up in flames.....we are economicaly bound to them...

Flip side to that is they are bound to us too. So whatever hits us (economically); hits them.

[straydoglogic]

Tweetin a sense yes klash..but they are far mor financially stable than us..who do you think we borrow billions from each month? yes we import alot from them but they would be far better off than we would be if anything were to happen between us...

[straydoglogic]

Tweethttps://www.cia.gov/library/publicat.../2187rank.html

where are we?

[daved150]

Tweet

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat.../2187rank.html

where are we?

i dont know...the link didnt work

[straydoglogic]

Tweethere you go..sorry
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat.../2187rank.html

[daved150]

Tweethuh...we're a little light right now....i guess i'm glad that it's not just me thats in the red!

[Klash]

TweetLOL, that is phucking pathetic.

Hmmm. Iraq has an 8 billion dollar surplus - I think we earned that.

[daved150]

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LOL, that is phucking pathetic.

Hmmm. Iraq has an 8 billion dollar surplus - I think we earned that.

no question!!! we need to grab that shyt on down payment towards the money we've spent...

[trip]

Tweeti don't think the report is correct


they have asked for support, is what i have read, not that they won support

china is just one big switzerland they side with no one

don't forget russia is ten times better at propaganda than the republican party

this one will be on going for a long time, lot's of hot air, lot's of lies, and lot's of total bs

there present strategy is simple, keep deaths too nill, and they can take an inch a week, and over time there position strengthens

what they want is those missiles out of poland

[firstenrgy]

TweetI'm so glad I muted stray. Seems like he's spewing the verbal diarrhea again.

[straydoglogic]

Tweetyou havent muted shyte..and this shyte with you is so phucking old its rediculous...why the phuck cant you grow up? are you 12? get a phucking life....is nobody going to put a muzzle on this phucking mutt?