Otherwise I'm german and I'm interesting very well in all from the south caucasian area. For me is my blog like an archive and other georgian people in this times from all over the world can also see the discussion and the press in Germany for example. I know - most times blogs are also a crucial collection or a rubbish field of media effects... But we need to see it all to make our own meaning.
With the war in Georgia I think .. I'm more near with the theoretical view of war from Godard (a french filmmaker) in his films. He said it is a stupid thinking to believe you can make a objectiv picture of this crucial and strange phenomen ...
But I like blogs, ... one of my favourites is www.registan.net
ignore the day-to-day, and also bloggers
As the fighting in South Ossetia heats up, it’s interesting to see the rush by all the bloggers to do the biggest, grandest roundups. By looking at this, you see those who think they’re clever by either stating the obvious (Russia wants to split Georgia, Abkhazia is getting involved), the conventional wisdom (Russia wants to disrupt the Georgia energy corridor), or the plain old wrong (Russia wants to annex Georgia). The examples are countless, and while not necessarily wrong, none are really saying anything those who are knowledgable of the situation haven’t been saying for months or years. You also notice that the same four or five stories from the New York Times, CNN, or the BBC all get linked and excerpted, as people play arm-chair correspondents and try to track every bombing, explosion, artillery strike, and troop movement. (...)
But even that is just conventional wisdom. Who cares? It’s called conventional wisdom because everyone already knows it. Finding something new or interesting about this conflict is tough, and the blogosphere is being more hurtful than helpful in offering anything of value. There is very little attention being paid, for example, to Russia’s diplomatic moves, which seem curiously centered in Brussels, and not Tskhinvali, Tblisi, or Moscow. Why Brussels? This escalation happened right before Georgia was scheduled for its ascension into NATO, and Russian would love nothing more than to scuttle Georgia’s chances. Pretending that the South Ossetian shadow government makes any of its own decision is about as useful as pretending the shadow government in Abkhazia does. They got violent because Moscow told them to, and it has been that way for a good fifteen years now (the Abkhaz government is a bit more autonomous, but they remain fatally reliant on Russian support).Update: For shits and giggles, dig our dear friend Ralph Peters in such moral agony he can barely move his fingers to type of the brave and embattled democratic-pacifist Georgian patriots being ground beneath the merciless tanks of an Imperial Russia desperate for her former glorious Empire. If prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were tortured like Ralph Peters tortures his writing, there would have already been trials for war crimes.
Update 2: Steve LeVine, who used to live in Tblisi and covered the 1993 conflict in Abkhazia, injects some much-needed sobriety into the discussion of the conflict.
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It’s gone over the brink: just one day after declaring a cease-fire in South Ossetia, fighting there has reached its highest level in years.
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