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August 14, 2008 at 9:17 PM #13595August 14, 2008 at 9:39 PM #257105
Eugene
ParticipantRussia is trying to flex its muscles and restore the superpower status of the 70’s and the 80’s. Georgia is a good place to start. The whole thing will end with annexation of South Ossetia and possibly Abkhazia. (Not that there’s anything worth annexing in either region)
August 14, 2008 at 9:39 PM #257287ParticipantRussia is trying to flex its muscles and restore the superpower status of the 70’s and the 80’s. Georgia is a good place to start. The whole thing will end with annexation of South Ossetia and possibly Abkhazia. (Not that there’s anything worth annexing in either region)
August 14, 2008 at 9:39 PM #257290ParticipantRussia is trying to flex its muscles and restore the superpower status of the 70’s and the 80’s. Georgia is a good place to start. The whole thing will end with annexation of South Ossetia and possibly Abkhazia. (Not that there’s anything worth annexing in either region)
August 14, 2008 at 9:39 PM #257349ParticipantRussia is trying to flex its muscles and restore the superpower status of the 70’s and the 80’s. Georgia is a good place to start. The whole thing will end with annexation of South Ossetia and possibly Abkhazia. (Not that there’s anything worth annexing in either region)
August 14, 2008 at 9:39 PM #257396ParticipantRussia is trying to flex its muscles and restore the superpower status of the 70’s and the 80’s. Georgia is a good place to start. The whole thing will end with annexation of South Ossetia and possibly Abkhazia. (Not that there’s anything worth annexing in either region)
August 14, 2008 at 9:48 PM #257115Veritas
ParticipantBecause they can. It was a chess move. Consider it a feint. Also, to control the oil pipeline there. We failed. Welcome to the cold war redux.
August 14, 2008 at 9:48 PM #257297ParticipantBecause they can. It was a chess move. Consider it a feint. Also, to control the oil pipeline there. We failed. Welcome to the cold war redux.
August 14, 2008 at 9:48 PM #257300ParticipantBecause they can. It was a chess move. Consider it a feint. Also, to control the oil pipeline there. We failed. Welcome to the cold war redux.
August 14, 2008 at 9:48 PM #257358ParticipantBecause they can. It was a chess move. Consider it a feint. Also, to control the oil pipeline there. We failed. Welcome to the cold war redux.
August 14, 2008 at 9:48 PM #257405ParticipantBecause they can. It was a chess move. Consider it a feint. Also, to control the oil pipeline there. We failed. Welcome to the cold war redux.
August 14, 2008 at 9:49 PM #257120DCRogers
ParticipantSome sympathy for the Russians here, to be honest. The Georgians are loco, and the Russians are giving us back the Kosovo lesson [‘dangerous to change sovereign borders’] in spades.
Bush made a mistake encouraging the Georgians to kick up sand in a rough neighborhood, esp. with an oil pipeline nearby.
That said, Russian lessons tend to avoid subtlety… best they call it victory and leave Georgia proper.
(You’re right that the outer provinces won’t be back. Kosovo payback. Locals hated the Georgians, if it’s any consolation…)
August 14, 2008 at 9:49 PM #257302ParticipantSome sympathy for the Russians here, to be honest. The Georgians are loco, and the Russians are giving us back the Kosovo lesson [‘dangerous to change sovereign borders’] in spades.
Bush made a mistake encouraging the Georgians to kick up sand in a rough neighborhood, esp. with an oil pipeline nearby.
That said, Russian lessons tend to avoid subtlety… best they call it victory and leave Georgia proper.
(You’re right that the outer provinces won’t be back. Kosovo payback. Locals hated the Georgians, if it’s any consolation…)
August 14, 2008 at 9:49 PM #257305ParticipantSome sympathy for the Russians here, to be honest. The Georgians are loco, and the Russians are giving us back the Kosovo lesson [‘dangerous to change sovereign borders’] in spades.
Bush made a mistake encouraging the Georgians to kick up sand in a rough neighborhood, esp. with an oil pipeline nearby.
That said, Russian lessons tend to avoid subtlety… best they call it victory and leave Georgia proper.
(You’re right that the outer provinces won’t be back. Kosovo payback. Locals hated the Georgians, if it’s any consolation…)
August 14, 2008 at 9:49 PM #257364ParticipantSome sympathy for the Russians here, to be honest. The Georgians are loco, and the Russians are giving us back the Kosovo lesson [‘dangerous to change sovereign borders’] in spades.
Bush made a mistake encouraging the Georgians to kick up sand in a rough neighborhood, esp. with an oil pipeline nearby.
That said, Russian lessons tend to avoid subtlety… best they call it victory and leave Georgia proper.
(You’re right that the outer provinces won’t be back. Kosovo payback. Locals hated the Georgians, if it’s any consolation…)
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