Dr.Snufflebug Sun Oct 08, 2023 7:32 pm
ALAMO wrote:Khohols are so deeply desperate for any kind of peremoga that will use every chance to sell this bridge.
Honestly, the news about the new location of the fleet in Abkhazia is a much more important event.
Well, it is important in the sense that is a "f**k it" situation. Russia kept minimal assets in Abkhazia and S. Ossetia, just Soviet leftovers, and only did so to deter Georgia from trying anything (in the latter case, it was UN-approved even, ie the peacekeepers that Saakashvili attacked in 2008).
But now it's like it doesn't matter. Every hand that Russia has extended has been bit, so they might as well expand their military presence there. Abkhazia has been de facto independent since the early 1990s (Tbilisi has never controlled the region) and Russia did recognize its independence after 2008, together with S. Ossetia, but Russia still refrained from getting too involved. Until now.
The little naval base they are planning, at the old coal shipping port of Jukmuri I guess, isn't all that strategically significant. But the move does open up for other Russian civilian investment in Abkhazia, which is sorely needed. The New Athos monastery, many towns like Sukhumi and other beautiful places have been kind of rotting due to lack of investment, due to the "limbo" Abkhazia's been in for some 30 years.
South Ossetians definitely want Russia to expand its presence there too, and probably join Russia together with their bros, the Russian republic North Ossetia, which has a say in the Duma and is doing quite well. South Ossetia never had a say in Tbilisi (and never wanted anything to do with Tbilisi anyway). Might happen soonish, because it's a f**k it situation, all concessions and goodwill Moscow's been engaged for ages in has returned nil.
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