Transcaucasia: in the ball of friends ...
After the unscheduled military exercises conducted by Russia in the Black Sea region, with their planned continuation, the Georgian side demonstrated its unhealthy revival on this issue.
The words of the Georgian Minister of Defense that Russia was conducting the exercises in the immediate vicinity of the Georgian borders, and “we have tenfold attention” give, excuse me, to some North Korean. Well, Russia is not to blame for the fact that it has common borders with Georgia, and that the Georgian authorities have paranoia.
Vulnerability and attempts to inflate the conflict flame literally from nothing on the part of representatives of Georgian officials look quite in the “best traditions” of Kim Jong-un. Well, of course, with the only difference that we have not yet announced the focus of the existing in Georgia weapons especially towards the Kremlin - the "aggressor" and "accomplice of the Ecumenical militarism." And the rest - really, it seems ...
However, Georgian politicians decided not to limit their statements to Russia in mortal sins, and announced that they were also ready to constantly demonstrate the skills of their army units. Like, and we still have that ... hoo ...
Only now, if Russia did not show anything to anyone, but solved its internal tasks to identify the level of combat capability of the army and fleet, then Georgia, as it became known, does not intend to limit itself to internal affairs. Irakli Alasania (head of the Georgian military department) said that the Georgian army will continue active joint exercises with American partners, and hereinafter quote:
Under the words “even more ambitious,” Alasania, apparently, meant that some new exercises will be larger than those that ended in Georgia just a few days ago. We are talking about the Georgian-American teachings Agile Spirit 2013. In these maneuvers, from which Alasania, after the maneuvers carried out by Russia, apparently wanted to extract something more, the American marines 350 and the military personnel of the 23 battalion of the Georgian army NNXX took part. It is noteworthy that the press service of the Georgian Ministry of Defense announced the end of the April 9th joint exercises with the American side, and the information was released that at the closing ceremony of the exercises (and there was such a part), the national ballet “Sukhishvili” and the musical group performed at the closing ceremony. "BMB". Was there a holiday feast after the musical closure of the Georgian-American studies? - The press service of the Georgian military department is silent, although, perhaps because of a feast, the US Marines remained at the closing ceremony ...
If we consider the teachings of Agile Spirit 2013, then one important detail stands out in them, which was told by the Georgian military personnel themselves. This detail consists in the fact that at one of the stages Georgian and foreign journalists were involved, whom the military were introduced to the rules of covering such events, taking into account all the safety principles. It turns out that they rather taught not the Georgian military themselves how to act in combat situations, but Georgian journalists, so that they would “correctly” cover the combat readiness of Georgian military personnel ... Teachings of the information troops ...
In this regard, the words of Heraclius Alasania that in the future Georgia will expect more extensive exercises, look somewhat ambiguous. Does official Tbilisi intend to scale up the exercises of its army by increasing the number of journalists accredited to cover them? For example, the "teachings" of a Georgian office against the background of the American flag can cover about a dozen television channels and radio stations, not to mention dozens of online publications ... The scale is obvious!
However, there is the Georgian side, which, apparently, the increasing frequency of Russian military maneuvers is touching on the living, and other plans to increase the mass character of the exercises in Georgia. One of these plans is the involvement of the Turkish side in military cooperation.
From the same main military department of Georgia it was reported that in the coming year Tbilisi is going to organize large regional maneuvers, inviting Azerbaijan and Turkey for this. The words of Mr. Alasania that talks about such exercises are already underway with the American side look very interesting here. What would it mean? Georgian military officials are going to persuade the US to strengthen the effect of the exercises with the help of two more countries - hypothetical participants? But if the United States is going to take part in the exercises a priori, then, to put it mildly, it is not entirely clear why the exercises that can start in Georgia next year are called regional authorities by the Georgian authorities. Or Tbilisi has already completely ceased to conceal that the United States is a regional (Caucasian) state due to the use of Georgian territory for its own purposes ...
Now it is worth considering the question of why Azerbaijan and Turkey are going to invite Georgia to conduct joint exercises next year. To answer this question, it is necessary to turn to the speech of the permanent representative of the Republic of Azerbaijan to NATO Mr. Ibrahim in the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. Khazar Ibrahim said that three countries (Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey) could offer their services to the NATO contingent, which is currently stationed in Afghanistan. This proposal is connected with the railway under construction from Baku through the Georgian Akhalkalaki station to the Turkish Kars. According to Ibrahim, the goods of NATO could get from Afghanistan to Azerbaijan by air, and then by rail to NATO Turkey. In addition, the permanent representative of Azerbaijan to NATO said that the designated railway will help increase the number of jobs in Afghanistan and, no less, raise the economy of this country ...
The American side noted that Ibrahim would definitely think about the proposal, and perhaps even make a positive decision, if the quotation of the official representative of the State Department: "prices will be acceptable" ... Apparently, the Baku-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway can be offered for withdrawal representatives of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey agreed at a meeting of the heads of the foreign ministries of the three states at the end of March in Batumi.
The Georgian authorities decided to take advantage of the (dubious) for themselves from the proposals of the Azerbaijani side (and the exercises surfaced) stated that Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey should certainly begin military cooperation in the region under close attention of their American friends. Apparently, in the plot of the exercise, the Georgian side is working on how, in 2014, the joint units will protect the railway track at the hands of hypothetical saboteurs. Where does Georgia expect sabotage groups that could disrupt cargo traffic by rail? - it is easy to guess, if we again refer to the words of Irakli Alasania:
As the saying goes: eat the fish, and ... Tbilisi’s idea is probably the following: NATO military contingent and equipment will be withdrawn, including through the territory of Georgia, and there, you see, NATO members will pay attention to such territories as Abkhazia and South Ossetia (in Georgian version - Tskhinvali region). And if you pay attention, then, you see, the Russian “invaders” will shake their knees, and the Kremlin will take and will withdraw its recognition of the independence of the two republics mentioned above. A sort of Georgian version: "and suddenly prokanaet ..."
Meanwhile, the hypothetical intensification of military activity (even in the form of training maneuvers) of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, which Tbilisi plans to nurture, is of some concern to Yerevan. While in Batumi, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia were discussing how to develop relations among themselves, including in the military sphere, Ramin Mehmanparast, a representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, visited Armenia. According to official data, the reason for the arrival in Yerevan of Mehmanparasta was the question of the possible condemnation by Armenia of foreign military intervention (including in the form of financial and technical assistance to the militants) in Syria. According to unofficial information, Mehmanparast convinced the Armenian leadership not to aggravate the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh if Azerbaijan starts military cooperation with the United States. How plausible is the designated unofficial reason for the visit of the representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry to Armenia? - difficult to say, but such a probability can not be excluded.
In general, in the South Caucasus, there is a buzzing in the style of "who outshoots someone with activity." What to do ... - a region of large geopolitical interests, and the official authorities of the countries of the region are trying to extract from this their own benefit. Someone is better, someone - as always ...
The words of the Georgian Minister of Defense that Russia was conducting the exercises in the immediate vicinity of the Georgian borders, and “we have tenfold attention” give, excuse me, to some North Korean. Well, Russia is not to blame for the fact that it has common borders with Georgia, and that the Georgian authorities have paranoia.
Vulnerability and attempts to inflate the conflict flame literally from nothing on the part of representatives of Georgian officials look quite in the “best traditions” of Kim Jong-un. Well, of course, with the only difference that we have not yet announced the focus of the existing in Georgia weapons especially towards the Kremlin - the "aggressor" and "accomplice of the Ecumenical militarism." And the rest - really, it seems ...
However, Georgian politicians decided not to limit their statements to Russia in mortal sins, and announced that they were also ready to constantly demonstrate the skills of their army units. Like, and we still have that ... hoo ...
Only now, if Russia did not show anything to anyone, but solved its internal tasks to identify the level of combat capability of the army and fleet, then Georgia, as it became known, does not intend to limit itself to internal affairs. Irakli Alasania (head of the Georgian military department) said that the Georgian army will continue active joint exercises with American partners, and hereinafter quote:
"In the future, even larger exercises will be held in Georgia."
Under the words “even more ambitious,” Alasania, apparently, meant that some new exercises will be larger than those that ended in Georgia just a few days ago. We are talking about the Georgian-American teachings Agile Spirit 2013. In these maneuvers, from which Alasania, after the maneuvers carried out by Russia, apparently wanted to extract something more, the American marines 350 and the military personnel of the 23 battalion of the Georgian army NNXX took part. It is noteworthy that the press service of the Georgian Ministry of Defense announced the end of the April 9th joint exercises with the American side, and the information was released that at the closing ceremony of the exercises (and there was such a part), the national ballet “Sukhishvili” and the musical group performed at the closing ceremony. "BMB". Was there a holiday feast after the musical closure of the Georgian-American studies? - The press service of the Georgian military department is silent, although, perhaps because of a feast, the US Marines remained at the closing ceremony ...
If we consider the teachings of Agile Spirit 2013, then one important detail stands out in them, which was told by the Georgian military personnel themselves. This detail consists in the fact that at one of the stages Georgian and foreign journalists were involved, whom the military were introduced to the rules of covering such events, taking into account all the safety principles. It turns out that they rather taught not the Georgian military themselves how to act in combat situations, but Georgian journalists, so that they would “correctly” cover the combat readiness of Georgian military personnel ... Teachings of the information troops ...
In this regard, the words of Heraclius Alasania that in the future Georgia will expect more extensive exercises, look somewhat ambiguous. Does official Tbilisi intend to scale up the exercises of its army by increasing the number of journalists accredited to cover them? For example, the "teachings" of a Georgian office against the background of the American flag can cover about a dozen television channels and radio stations, not to mention dozens of online publications ... The scale is obvious!
However, there is the Georgian side, which, apparently, the increasing frequency of Russian military maneuvers is touching on the living, and other plans to increase the mass character of the exercises in Georgia. One of these plans is the involvement of the Turkish side in military cooperation.
From the same main military department of Georgia it was reported that in the coming year Tbilisi is going to organize large regional maneuvers, inviting Azerbaijan and Turkey for this. The words of Mr. Alasania that talks about such exercises are already underway with the American side look very interesting here. What would it mean? Georgian military officials are going to persuade the US to strengthen the effect of the exercises with the help of two more countries - hypothetical participants? But if the United States is going to take part in the exercises a priori, then, to put it mildly, it is not entirely clear why the exercises that can start in Georgia next year are called regional authorities by the Georgian authorities. Or Tbilisi has already completely ceased to conceal that the United States is a regional (Caucasian) state due to the use of Georgian territory for its own purposes ...
Now it is worth considering the question of why Azerbaijan and Turkey are going to invite Georgia to conduct joint exercises next year. To answer this question, it is necessary to turn to the speech of the permanent representative of the Republic of Azerbaijan to NATO Mr. Ibrahim in the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. Khazar Ibrahim said that three countries (Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey) could offer their services to the NATO contingent, which is currently stationed in Afghanistan. This proposal is connected with the railway under construction from Baku through the Georgian Akhalkalaki station to the Turkish Kars. According to Ibrahim, the goods of NATO could get from Afghanistan to Azerbaijan by air, and then by rail to NATO Turkey. In addition, the permanent representative of Azerbaijan to NATO said that the designated railway will help increase the number of jobs in Afghanistan and, no less, raise the economy of this country ...
The American side noted that Ibrahim would definitely think about the proposal, and perhaps even make a positive decision, if the quotation of the official representative of the State Department: "prices will be acceptable" ... Apparently, the Baku-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway can be offered for withdrawal representatives of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey agreed at a meeting of the heads of the foreign ministries of the three states at the end of March in Batumi.
The Georgian authorities decided to take advantage of the (dubious) for themselves from the proposals of the Azerbaijani side (and the exercises surfaced) stated that Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey should certainly begin military cooperation in the region under close attention of their American friends. Apparently, in the plot of the exercise, the Georgian side is working on how, in 2014, the joint units will protect the railway track at the hands of hypothetical saboteurs. Where does Georgia expect sabotage groups that could disrupt cargo traffic by rail? - it is easy to guess, if we again refer to the words of Irakli Alasania:
“... on the part of the occupying forces, there is no signal that their position regarding the territorial integrity of Georgia will change in any form. Their military presence in complete violation of international principles and today gives a reason for us to be constantly in combat readiness. "
As the saying goes: eat the fish, and ... Tbilisi’s idea is probably the following: NATO military contingent and equipment will be withdrawn, including through the territory of Georgia, and there, you see, NATO members will pay attention to such territories as Abkhazia and South Ossetia (in Georgian version - Tskhinvali region). And if you pay attention, then, you see, the Russian “invaders” will shake their knees, and the Kremlin will take and will withdraw its recognition of the independence of the two republics mentioned above. A sort of Georgian version: "and suddenly prokanaet ..."
Meanwhile, the hypothetical intensification of military activity (even in the form of training maneuvers) of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, which Tbilisi plans to nurture, is of some concern to Yerevan. While in Batumi, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia were discussing how to develop relations among themselves, including in the military sphere, Ramin Mehmanparast, a representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, visited Armenia. According to official data, the reason for the arrival in Yerevan of Mehmanparasta was the question of the possible condemnation by Armenia of foreign military intervention (including in the form of financial and technical assistance to the militants) in Syria. According to unofficial information, Mehmanparast convinced the Armenian leadership not to aggravate the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh if Azerbaijan starts military cooperation with the United States. How plausible is the designated unofficial reason for the visit of the representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry to Armenia? - difficult to say, but such a probability can not be excluded.
In general, in the South Caucasus, there is a buzzing in the style of "who outshoots someone with activity." What to do ... - a region of large geopolitical interests, and the official authorities of the countries of the region are trying to extract from this their own benefit. Someone is better, someone - as always ...
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