More troops at border not fewer

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 16.02.2022 um 20:30 schrieb Mark Kohut:

> https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1494027860671094786?s=20&t=XmBx8eHqgAh6YONoPA3nXw
>
> and all over the communication world, non-mainstream media I guess, it is
> being pointed out that in 2014 Russia after
> its troop buildup around Georgia said they were drawing troops back...and
> attacked Georgia eight days later...
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l

You are talking about 2008, I assume?

-- An independent, international fact-finding mission headed by Swiss
diplomat Heidi Tagliavini was established by the EU to determine the
causes of the war. (...) The report blamed Georgia for starting the war,
stating that open hostilities started "... with a large-scale Georgian
military operation against the town of Tskhinvali and the surrounding
areas, launched in the night of 7 to 8 August 2008" although it noted
that "... any explanation of the origins of the conflict cannot focus
solely on the artillery attack on Tskhinvali in the night of 7/8 August"
since "... it was only the culminating point of a long period of
increasing tensions, provocations and incidents", and there was "... no
way to assign overall responsibility for the conflict to one side alone." --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_Russo-Georgian_War#EU_Independent_Fact_Finding_Mission_Report

It is not black and white, however much you want it to be.