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"Don’t the bombs blow up when they hit the ground, making the writing on them hard to read?"

Not all of them, "Made in Russia". But seriously, I have heard of these reports during the first couple of days of Russia's invasion in the news.

Allegedly, a few bombs didn't explode and that's how the writing is visible. President Saakashvili did actually state in one of the CNN interviews that the said writing was found on a bomb that did not explode.

While I have not actively searched for independently confirmed reports, I suppose the bombs can fail to explode for many reasons: detonator malfunction, deflection against angled object (detonator never activated), hitting a soft surface (a swamp)?

Just wanted to comment on the fact that for bombs not to explode is credible and this has happened in many other conflicts and wars throughout the World.

As far as the credibility of the writing itself, it is also possible. "Inventing" such claims is silly and the president of Georgia most likely wouldn't make such comment unless he had a credible source. I would still want to see more evidence of this before I would believe it 100%. Unfortunately this is next to impossible. Any such evidence (such as photo) can be disclaimed by the adversary as fabricated. Only possibility would be an independent eyewitness that probably doesn't exist.

One would think, why would Russians "give away" their true motif in such way. Let's just say that NATO to Russia is an adversary, a threat, and they are not secretive about it, especially on the bombs that were supposed to explode.

Writings on military equipment is not new. Airplanes, tanks and bombs have been written on in other wars. It's kind of a "morale-lifter" activity for troops.

Whether the words were actually written on the bomb or not is kind of moot point because the entire conflict has it written on it in big bold letters.

First of all let me address the doubt that was expressed regarding the http://www.firstgiving.com/aid-georgia fundraiser for victims of war in Georgia.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am not in any way affiliated with neither of the two organizations.

The above fundraiser has been approved and earmarked by a fundraising manager at Save the Children USA. Save the Children program expenses are 90.4% of the donations which is pretty good.

firstgiving.com is a legitimate business and is certified by BBB and Trustwave.

The Georgia Aid on the fundraiser page is simply a symbol for this particular fundraiser and doesn't represent any entity but the fundraising event itself. In fact this is the exact purpose of this imageholder.

As far as the triple post, I have not noticed any anomalies when posting, so it could have been a network glitch. If the moderator wishes to correct the error, I won't take it as endorsement, but rather fixing a glitch resulting in a triple-post.

While my political opinion is biased, I have to note that the purpose of the fundraiser is to help victims of the war in Georgia REGARDLESS of their ethnicity.

Finally I apologize for the link, but as the moderator noted, I felt my post was relevant.

Until Russia is out of Putin's (and alike leaders) slavery, the Russian neighbors have no hope. The World is moving toward internal isolation following the false sense of unity of end of Cold War. Unfortunately the freedom seeking Russians have been demoralized, prosecuted,killed, jailed, poisoned so many times by their own government that Russian democracy is almost hopeless. However, as soon as the Oil Economy is over, the Russia will return to its poor state that we saw at the end of the USSR. That's when the Putin and alike will lose their power and the Russian revolution will be inevitable.

Having said that, no matter what the politics are, the fact is that the human catastrophe is happening in Georgia right now. Most vulnerable of the civilians, women, children, elderly, sick, are at the mercy of drunken militias backed by Russian army.

The urgent need right now is to help THEM. How many calls for donations have you seen in the media? Almost none, everyone is too busy figuring out the Russians and their next move, while people are dying.

SoUntil Russia is out of Putin's (and alike leaders) slavery, the Russian neighbors have no hope. The World is moving toward internal isolation following the false sense of unity of end of Cold War. Unfortunately the freedom seeking Russians have been demoralized, prosecuted,killed, jailed, poisoned so many times by their own government that Russian democracy is almost hopeless. However, as soon as the Oil Economy is over, the Russia will return to its poor state that we saw at the end of the USSR. That's when the Putin and alike will lose their power and the Russian revolution will be inevitable.

Having said that, no matter what the politics are, the fact is that the human catastrophe is happening in Georgia right now. Most vulnerable of the civilians, women, children, elderly, sick, are at the mercy of drunken militias backed by Russian army.

The urgent need right now is to help THEM. How many calls for donations have you seen in the media? Almost none, everyone is too busy figuring out the Russians and their next move, while people are dying.

SoUntil Russia is out of Putin's (and alike leaders) slavery, the Russian neighbors have no hope. The World is moving toward internal isolation following the false sense of unity of end of Cold War. Unfortunately the freedom seeking Russians have been demoralized, prosecuted,killed, jailed, poisoned so many times by their own government that Russian democracy is almost hopeless. However, as soon as the Oil Economy is over, the Russia will return to its poor state that we saw at the end of the USSR. That's when the Putin and alike will lose their power and the Russian revolution will be inevitable.

Having said that, no matter what the politics are, the fact is that the human catastrophe is happening in Georgia right now. Most vulnerable of the civilians, women, children, elderly, sick, are at the mercy of drunken militias backed by Russian army.

The urgent need right now is to help THEM. How many calls for donations have you seen in the media? Almost none, everyone is too busy figuring out the Russians and their next move, while people are dying.

SoUntil Russia is out of Putin's (and alike leaders) slavery, the Russian neighbors have no hope. The World is moving toward internal isolation following the false sense of unity of end of Cold War. Unfortunately the freedom seeking Russians have been demoralized, prosecuted,killed, jailed, poisoned so many times by their own government that Russian democracy is almost hopeless. However, as soon as the Oil Economy is over, the Russia will return to its poor state that we saw at the end of the USSR. That's when the Putin and alike will lose their power and the Russian revolution will be inevitable.

Having said that, no matter what the politics are, the fact is that the human catastrophe is happening in Georgia right now. Most vulnerable of the civilians, women, children, elderly, sick, are at the mercy of drunken militias backed by Russian army.

The urgent need right now is to help THEM. How many calls for donations have you seen in the media? Almost none, everyone is too busy figuring out the Russians and their next move, while people are dying.

So< I have coordinated with Save the Children, who has launched relief effort in Georgia, to raise funds to save the victims on both sides of the conflict and regardless of the ethnicity.

Please support this cause at: http://www.firstgiving.com/aid-georgia

Your energy would better be spent on efforts such as this.

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