How many fingers do you see Winston

[Paddy]

... and the photographs that the BBC and UK media did not show.

http://ossetians.com/eng/news.php?ne...43de06ab38584d

[Diver]

It seems that most people are. What has supprised me in this conflight is the huge amount disinformation. Even the BBC used fake photographs and video footage.

Just some here as shown on BBC.

http://ossetians.com/eng/news.php?ne...613fdf34e44b06

Excellent catch Paddy

[Paddy]

Here is a rant from Pravda

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/106119-0/

Should we be worried about more than just the price of good Chardonnay and house prices?

It seems that most people are. What has supprised me in this conflight is the huge amount disinformation. Even the BBC used fake photographs and video footage.

Just some here as shown on BBC.

http://ossetians.com/eng/news.php?ne...613fdf34e44b06

[Incognito]

Penis enlargement?

I got a lot of those ones...

Actually I've been getting loads of spam asking me if I want an MBA or doctorate. They obviously aren't putting the .co.uk address to the fact that I can just get an MA from the likes of Newcastle Uni etc for less effort.

[Xenophon]

But you're tall enough, Right?

[Diver]

Penis enlargement?

I got a lot of those ones...

But you're tall enough, Right?

[Xenophon]

I got a spam e-mail the other day that made more interesting reading that what you've typed

Penis enlargement?

I got a lot of those ones...

[Incognito]

I got a spam e-mail the other day that made more interesting reading that what you've typed

[sunnysan]

Here is a rant from Pravda

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/106119-0/

Now although pravda is to be taken with a pinch of salt, I would imagine that this kind of slant typifies most coverage of the war in either Russia or any CIS state with Russian sympathies, granted that this version may be extreme.

My reason for inclusion was to try and guage the similarity between Russia and a post WW1 Germany.

I think that their are as many similarities (Nationalist rhetoric, Economic resurgence after humiliation etc), my main question is where will Russian territorial ambitions end?

AFAICS, the same argument or "formula" could be used in more or less the same way in the Baltic states who have sizable ethnic Russian minorities.

With ther exception of the Baltic states(And only very marginally for that matter), most ex USSR states are corrupt and inefficient poltical and economic entities that to more or less of a degree have retained more characteristics of the Soviet Union than Russia has itself, in every one of them, IMHO there would be at least one disgruntled ethnic group which would use Russian nationlist ambitions to their own ends

At what point would the western europe/USA need to make a stand where any further territorial expansion would be countered by military force?

Additionally, what would be Russia's optimum territorial aquisition? It has a huge area to administer and I would not think that territorial aquisition for the sake of it would be on the agenda.

Should we be worried about more than just the price of good Chardonnay and house prices?