Question by techiemon10: If soldiers and peacekeepers are the same, is Russia violating withdrawal promises by stationing peacekeepers?
Russia has signed a peace agreement with Georgia. Russia has agreed to withdraw soldiers. But now they claim that peacekeepers are not soldiers and that these peacekeepers will stay to keep the peace. Don’t they mean keep the “piece”? As in the piece of Georgia they now occupy?
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Answer by Bozo C
Are the US troops in Iraq considered peacekeepers?
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Visor says
Something like that.
It the west didn't express massive protest I'm sure they'd keep all of Georgia.
Russia is using every possible and impossible excuse and blatant lies to delay withdrawal.
Peacekeepers aren't same as soldiers, but given the events Russia has no legal and moral right to play a peacekeeper tole in there. They are clearly on separatists side and Russia financed and armed separatists to begin with.
Also Russian army provided military help any time separatists needed it, in addition Russia violated Georgian airspace and bombed Georgia several times, denying the obvious as usual, although have to give them credit here, one bombing they admitted and explained it as accidental.
On top of all that Russia declared that they support ANY decision by S.O. government and will probably include S.O. in Russian Federation. Support apparently includes ethnic cleansing of Georgians openly declared by S.O. president Kokoiti.
As one famous politic said in 20th century, treaties with Russia worth less than the paper they're written on.
You can see today how true that assessment was.