Originally Posted by Pleasurepays

who is the idiot here?

Russia took over your country and wiped out a considerable portion of the population. I would think you wouldn't be so quick to forget that, particularly in the middle of a conversation about Russia invading Georgia. Joining NATO would at least ensure that never happens again. It's not like you can do anything to stop them from fucking with you if they wanted to. It's not like the Ukraine has even come remotely close to getting their shit together in the last decade and a 1/2 in terms of reigning in corruption, normalizing the business/legal climate etc. I have to wire massive amounts of money to the Ukraine every month and something that simple is just as ignorant, retarded and difficult today as it was 10 years ago.

Everyone is always so full of this wonderful sense of national pride until someone shows up and starts slaughtering people and you can't do anything about. The President of Georgia has/had a lot of support to go after Ossetia... lot of good that did him. The world is now watching Georgia get pounded into oblivion...

but hey... at least they didn't "join NATO like a bunch of prostitutes" right?