This can happen when you adopt a foreign policy of intimidation (neocons take note...):Poland and the United States reached an agreement Thursday to base American missile interceptors in Poland, the prime minister said, going ahead with a plan that has angered Russia and threatened to...
confrontation in the caucasus
It's always sad when an interstate war winds down. Except, of course, for all of the people living in the place where the war happens. It's good for them. Read.
It's very hard at this point to come to any conclusions about the capabilities of either Russian or Georgian forces. I do think we can decisively say that Ralph Peters.
This NYT article sheds some light on the question of US awareness of Georgian military preparations. At the State Department in Washington, Mr. Fried, the top envoy for the region, received a phone call on Thursday from Georgia’s foreign minister, Eka Tkeshelashvili, who said the...
Russia and Georgia have agreed to a ceasefire, although it appears that there is still some shooting going on near Gori. I think that Kevin Drum's assessment of what happened.
Moscow McDonalds.Tblisi McDonalds.Sorry, Tom.And on IR Theories that should be taken more seriously, Chris Bertram notes both Russia and Georgia currently rank at 7, the highest democratic score, in the.
Kevin Drum links to an article by Jonathan Landay indicating that the United States did its best to restrain Georgia, and that while it anticipated a strong Russia reaction within South Ossetia, it didn't foresee the larger Russian counter-offensive. This runs strongly counter to Adrian...
The Times has a fairly grim account of the Georgian retreat from Gori:The Georgian Army was in complete disarray last night after troops and tanks fled the town of Gori.
For what it's worth.What happened on the night of Aug. 7 is beyond comprehension. The Georgian military attacked the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali with multiple rocket launchers designed to.
Fox News (which has been solid on this thus far):Russian forces swept across Georgia on Monday, capturing the town of Gori and moving to within 35 miles of the capital city Tbilisi, FOX News confirmed.Georgia reportedly was rushing more than 1,000 troops to Tbilisi in...
My guess would be . . . Munich, 1938!What do I win?BTW it would be difficult to top this phrase for some sort of Neo-Con Unselfconscious Irony Award: "Fanatics aren’t.
For alcoholics, angry loners, and the unemployable who happen to have 50 minutes to kill.... Heilbrunn is a little bit more Realist than myself, but I think that we have.