US, NATO know Russia is right

"The US and EU had no right to stand against Russia as it was defending Russian citizens from Georgian attacks", a senior EIR editor says.

In an interview with PRESSTV, senior editor of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) said that the Russian troops, based in South Ossetia, are there under a 1994 UN Security Council resolution mandate to secure peace for a nation about 80 percent of whom have Russian citizenship. Moscow, under its constitution, had an obligation to stand firm against any foreign threat to its citizens' security and the United States and NATO knew that Russia was rightfully abiding by its constitutional laws. That is why they would not engage in a new conflict with Russia unless they wished to start World War III, Steinberg noted.

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