Although the US president made the first declaration that “Russia’s reaction is disproportionate”, the western news channels announced that Russia invaded Georgia, no question on “reaction to what”.

This question appeared in every rational mind, but not in the news channels’ talkheads. It took about two days of digging, bestcyrano.org, the real news network, democracy now, indymedia, truthdig etc. for the order of things to become clear.

Whatever US’s reasons (natural resources or presidential elections) are for provoking Russia, Iran etc., EU shouldn’t be a pawn in the US foreign policy. EU, the European Union, is not the pretext battleground between the capitalists and the “commies” (?!) as a cover for the US special needs of external resources or for the profit making of corporations from war and handling natural resources.

The morals of the Georgian event are, in my opinion, that it is time for EU countries to withdraw from NATO and define an autonomous defense policy for EU itself.

EU should reconsider its place on the map and its relations with its neighbors. Russia and the countries around the Mediterranean Sea should be recognized and understood as EU good neighbors and treated as such.

One should not listen to those news-people who are paid more than the presidents of their countries, because people like that would say anything that is being suggested to them for such a paycheck (or they were hired exactly because they have a certain bias that fits the employer’s expectations; yes, nobody will pay you a large amount of money just because you’re being yourself and independent of anybody else’s agenda): throw away your TV, cut your TV cable subscription and come on the Net.

Nevertheless, if your country’s constitution would contain something similar to these principles, this kind of noise would not pop up so often.

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