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Published: 15:34 BST, 11 May 2016 | Updated: 12:54 BST, 13 May 2016
The Georgian army has begun twoweeks of military exercises with the United States and Britain - despite Russia's anger as American tanks rolled into its backyard.
Hundreds of soldiers gathered at the military base of Vaziani - once used by Russia, just outside the capital Tbilisi - for the opening ceremony of the exercise, dubbed 'Noble Partner 2016'.
As the sky filled with paratroopers while some 650 American, 150 British and 500 Georgian soldiers watched on in front of a fleet of tanks, Moscow's anger was almost palpable.
The two week exercise, which began today, included about 650 U.S. soldiers, 150 British and 500 Georgians
The news of the exercise, called Noble Partner 2016, angered Russia, who said it could destabalise the region
Last week, it said the decision to hold the exercise on its doorstep was 'provocative' and 'aimed at deliberately rocking the military-political situation in the South Caucasus'.
The Russian Foreign Ministry went as far as to accuse the United States - which has also dispatched an entire mechanised company, including eight Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and, for the first time, eight M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks - was indulging the 'revanchist desires of Tbilisi'.
It is a charge which Georgia has strongly denied.
'These exercises are not directed against anyone. There isno trace of provocation,' Georgia's Prime Minister GeorgyKvirikashvili said in a statement.
Georgia's Defence Minister Tina Khidasheli said the drillswere an important event for the South Caucasus republic.
'This is one of the biggest exercises that our country hasever hosted, this is the biggest number of troops on the ground,and the largest concentration of military equipment,' Khidasheli said.
Moscow also accused the United States was indulging the 'revanchist desires of Tbilisi'
Russian forces used to be based at the base where the exercises are being carried out
Russia defeated Georgia in a short war in 2008 over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia.
Moscow continues to garrison troops there and to support another breakaway region, Abkhazia.
Russian forces used to be based at the base where the exercises are being carried out until they withdrew atthe start of the last decade under the terms of a European armsreduction agreement.
Russia defeated Georgia in a short war in 2008 over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia. Pictured: U.S. servicemen attend an opening ceremony of U.S. led joint military exercise "Noble Partner 2016"
Moscow continues to garrison troops there and to support another breakaway region, Abkhazia. Pictured: Georgian NRF servicemen take a rest before the official opening ceremony
'The importance of these exercises is to improveinteroperability between Georgia, the United States and theUnited Kingdom. ... It enables us to prepare Georgia'scontribution to a NATO response force,' Colonel JeffreyDickerson, the U.S. director of the exercises, told Reuters.
The United States has spoken favourably of the idea thatGeorgia might one day join NATO, something Russia firmlyopposes.
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SUMMER in Tbilisi. The latticed balconies suspended over the Kura river alive with chatter; naked boys splashing in the fountains; the grimy courtyards overrun by unruly vines—and rumours of war.
If it were not for geopolitics and history, Georgia would be rich. Its 5m-odd population ought to subsist comfortably on its Black Sea summer resorts, winter skiing, agriculture and transit revenues. Under Mikhail Saakashvili (pictured above), who was swept to the country's presidency by the “rose revolution” of 2003, it at last has a chance of becoming a prosperous, free country. But the Soviet rule that followed the tsarist period bequeathed Georgia and Mr Saakashvili daunting problems—including Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two enclaves that broke away from Tbilisi in nasty wars in the early 1990s. Each summer, as the weather gets hotter, the political temperature rises in the enclaves.
This year's drama has included the Georgian government's operation last week to disarm a renegade warlord in the remote Kodori gorge, the only bit of Abkhazia at least nominally controlled by the Tbilisi authorities. That alarmed the Abkhaz leadership. There have been a string of murky assassinations—perhaps political, perhaps criminal—in South Ossetia. The tension there, says Matthew Bryza, an American diplomat, is “worrisomely high”, not helped, perhaps, by the sacking last month of Georgy Khaindrava, Georgia's conflict-resolution minister. Both Zurab Noghaideli, the prime minister, and Mr Khaindrava himself say this was for unrelated reasons. But his was a (relatively) conciliatory voice. Others saw his departure as a victory for the “party of war” within the government.
War, though, would be crazy—because it would in effect be war against Russia, whose support helped the two enclaves to achieve their quasi-secession and sustains them in it. The Georgian parliament last month told Russia's peace keepers to leave the enclaves, and the government may soon follow suit. After us, say (or promise) the Russians, there will be chaos. Some Georgians detect a Russian hand behind the opaque events in the Kodori gorge: it is “highly unlikely”, says Mr Noghaideli, that the wayward warlord acted alone.
In a way, though, Russia and Georgia are already at war, albeit a cold one. Russian ire with Mr Saakashvili and his Westernising policies have led to increases in the price of gas and the shutting-off of other energy supplies, border closures, disruption to the visa regime and a vindictive economic embargo. One example concerns Borjomi, a chalky, pungent Georgian water. It has, says Badri Japaridze, vice-president of the firm that bottles it, been drunk in Russia for 115 years. Russians were consuming half the production, until it was banned on questionable health grounds in May.
For its part, Georgia wants to reopen the bilateral trade deal the two countries have already reached in preparation for Russia's accession to the World Trade Organisation: unwise perhaps, if they were to end up with even worse terms. Mr Noghaideli observes defiantly that Georgia can have good relations with Russia “if we get down on our knees”.
But an actual war in South Ossetia or Abkhazia would mean disaster for Georgia, and not only because it would probably lose. It would make solving the territorial disputes impossible. And it would wreck one of Mr Saakashvili's dearest aspirations, and the one the Russians most resent: his plan to take Georgia into NATO . All that should be clear, even to Georgia's young, hot-headed defence minister, Irakli Okruashvili. Mr Noghaideli says the whole government is committed to peaceable solutions. “There is a party of war,” says Mr Khaindrava, the sacked minister, “but it is in Russia.”
Sabres are indeed rattling in Russia. The foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said recently that his country would use “all means” to protect its citizens in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Thanks to Russia's generous ways with passports there, that applies to almost everyone in the statelets (though the Abkhaz, unlike the Ossetians, still covet full independence). During recent military exercises in the Russian north Caucasus, Russian officials made it clear that they had had Georgia in mind.
On the other hand, Mr Saakashvili and his team are anxious to do something about the enclaves, which are being creepingly incorporated into Russia. That may be part of a Kremlin plan, also involving Moldova (see article ). Much more waiting risks losing the territories for ever. Yet irresponsible talk and ill-considered actions will have unintended consequences.
Georgians are a proud, nationalistic lot, and virtually all of them share Mr Saakashvili's ambition to reunite the country. But 70 years of Soviet rule have also left them cynical, and some see another motive in the government's urgency over the enclaves: to distract attention from its other travails.
There have been big achievements, chief among them an impressive crackdown on corruption, which largely explain the president's still-high approval ratings. More tax is being collected; economic growth will reach double figures this year, predicts Mr Noghaideli. Since 2004 Tbilisi's writ has run over Ajaria, another once-breakaway Black Sea enclave. In the summer months it now swarms with Armenian tourists. Apart from those of the Baltic countries, Mr Saakashvili's may be the most accomplished post-Soviet government now in office—even if many Georgians prefer to see themselves as a struggling European country than as a better-than-average ex-Soviet one.
But there have been disappointments too, not all of them part of the inevitable post-revolutionary come-down. Poverty and unemployment are still rife. Even in Tbilisi life for many is tough. In the countryside, it is grinding.
Worse, Mr Saakashvili's enhanced presidential powers and the pliant parliament are encouraging his authoritarian streak. The police, claims Tinatin Khidasheli, an opposition activist, are out of control. Conditions in the country's over-stuffed prisons, says one well-placed Western observer, are medieval. A bloody prison riot took place in March. Accusations are made of unfair arrests and rigged trials, as in the case of a banker killed by interior-ministry employees: a test of the government's commitment to the rule of law, says Salome Zourabichvili, a former foreign minister now in opposition—and one that it looks like failing. Pressure on the media is the subject of various rumblings.
Mr Noghaideli dismisses them. “Georgia”, he says, “will be a successful democracy very soon.” Perhaps. But some recent developments rather resemble those in another country to which Georgians do not much like to be compared: Mr Putin's Russia. Like other governments in the region, Mr Saakashvili's sometimes shows signs of a dangerous contempt for the people it governs. He can still turn Georgia into the prosperous democracy it ought to be—the best way, anyway, to win back the enclaves—but, on both scores, he needs to be rather careful.
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It was already well known that DWS did not like Weaver by April/May 2016. That's all there is in the emails: her calling Weaver an ass, them responding to being accused (by him) of money laundering, them hoping that Bernie would concede soon, DWS being mad that Weaver blamed her for his employee accessing Clinton's data. DNC worried that Clinton might do better than forecast in RI, because the Bernie babies would cry conspiracy (again). Really stupid stuff.
Please address this in one of the other 15 threads relating to this topic. This is not exactly a blog.
THe DNC was correct that Bernie would have never stood a chance in a general election so of course they shot him down.
He's also not a Democrat so why people expect the Democratic Party to support Sanders over Clinton, their own Party's nominee, is pretty weird.
I realize you're probably elderly and your memory isn't what it used to be, R4, but there were quite a few polls just a few months ago that showed Sanders beating Trump by percentages in the double digits, many with a much wider margin than Her Kankleship.
She's probably going to win and you'll get your way, tiresome as it will be, but you don't have to lie anymore.
But yes, R4, he is a registered Democrat and he normally has caucused with the Democrats.
Bernie screwed himself when he didn't campaign on her scandal plagued public life. Scandal is who she is. He let her get away with her lies and bullshit.
I'm lying that it is not surprising that the Democratic National Committee supported their own Democratic candidate over an outsider who has never run as a Democrat?
He caucuses with Democrats by choice, he certainly wasn't elected as a Democrat and he can just as easily caucus with the Republicans if he wants to, he agrees with them on some things.
That "I" next to his name when he is identified in the Senate or on the news? It actually means something and it isn't Democrat.
As i posted yesterday, how did the DNC manage to make7 million+ more people vote for Clinton instead of Sanders?
Besides all of these emails so far, anyway, are from MAY 2016.
By then it was pretty clear that his campaign was done, and we (Clinton supporters) were getting annoyed that he was still trying to live in a fantasy land where he would win BY ASKING the Superdelegates to vote for him instead of Clinton.
It doesn't surprise me that he'd be pissing off a lot of DNC people by then.
I said that I meant that comment for R3, who lied that Bernie never stood a chance against Trump in the general.
R7 I partially agree with you. I was tired of idiot women saying they were going to vote for Hillary because she is a woman. Kinda scary that was their only criteria.
In an email dated May 18, 2016, Christina Freundlich, Deputy Communications Director at the DNC proposed that the Democrats impersonate the Trump Organization on Craigslist, placing a fake ad for “hot women” aimed at making the Republican candidate look as sexist as possible.
The email, which can be read below, contains the full text of the fake ad. It includes requirements for employees to “not gain weight on the job,” to “evaluate other women’s hotness,” and be comfortable with a range of illegal workplace sexual harassment including allowing the boss to “grope you under the meeting table.”
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:09 AM -0700, “Freundlich, Christina” [html removed]> wrote: Mark and Luis – digital created a fake craigslist jobs post for women who want to apply to jobs one of Trump’s organizations. This will be a microsite and we still need to send it to Perkins. Since we will be pitching this, need your approval please. Thanks
Seeking staff members for multiple positions in a large, New York-based corporation known for its real estate investments, fake universities, steaks, and wine. The boss has very strict standards for female employees, ranging from the women who take lunch orders (must be hot) to the women who oversee multi-million dollar construction projects (must maintain hotness demonstrated at time of hiring).
Title: Honey Bunch (that’s what the boss will call you)
No gaining weight on the job (we’ll take some “before” pictures when you start to use later as evidence) Must be open to public humiliation and open-press workouts if you do gain weight on the job A willingness to evaluate other women’s hotness for the boss’ satisfaction is a plus Should be proficient in lying about age if the boss thinks you’re too old Working mothers not preferred (the boss finds pumping breast milk disgusting, and worries they’re too
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