Russian spy ship spotted off Okinawa

“Russian navy intelligence ship has been in the Pacific off Okinawa’s main island, possibly to monitor radio wave data from the U.S. forces in Okinawa, the Defense Ministry’s Joint Staff Office said Friday”

Why would they need a ship at sea to monitor radio when they could do it from the comfort (and cheapness) of their onshore embassy?

If the spy ship is stopping it’s engines, they’re looking for subs, not radio traffic (which any US voice/data traffic is encrypted beyond Russia’s ability to decode).

When reading US-affiliated news on Georgian issue, be aware that Georgia is USA pet regime in Caucasus region. Current georgian president ‘Mishiko’ Saakashvili came into power after US-inspired ‘rose revolution’ in 2003. He received 96% (!) votes in elections which followed shortly and were dubbed legitimate&democratic by USA. Ever after he served fervently as ‘our bastard’ for his US masters, mad dog ready to bite Russia anytime. In recent years, Georgia built up its army under US instructors’ supervising and raised its military budget several times, buying armament from Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine and Israel.

Now it seems he either went mad literally, or was forewarned that Russia won’t interfere. Either way he probably aimed to frighten Ossetian people, ‘punish’ them for ‘separatism’ and just purge them from ‘Georgian land’. Otherwise what did he order to raze main city of Tskhinval for? Georgian forces attaked peacekeeping batallion stationed in Tskhinval and started artillery bombardment of the city.

So when Russian army at last reached Tskhinval in est. 12 hours August 8, there was ruins and many dead bodies under them, body count reached 2,000 and growing. Russian peacekeeping battalion was blocked and under heavy fire, they reported 15 dead and 150 wounded. So first tasks of Russian army were deblocking of pecekeepers and then dislodge Georgian troops from the city to allow rescue teams to begin their work.