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 in panic and abandoned it to the Russians without firing a shot...The retreat from Gori,...
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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.
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 deterred by the disapproval of men of moderation or refinement."The funny thing is that the...
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.
A brief round-up; I'll have more tomorrow on Russia-NATO and Russia-US relations specifically. At this point the situation in Georgia doesn't seem to have changed radically from what it was.
McCain supporters are obviously going to try and run a good distance with the argument that he was somehow "prescient" on the question of Russian power. I'm not quite sure how to put this, but McCain's apparent inability to view Russian foreign policy as anything...
This looks like a surrender to me:Georgia's Foreign Ministry said its soldiers were observing a cease-fire on orders of the president and declared the move in a note handed over.
I am told by a source that Izvestiya is claiming that an American working with Georgian forces has been captured by the Russians. Here's the link; as I don't read.
The plot to distract the world from the glory of the 2008 Olympic Games continues to unfold:Russia has not accepted Georgia's cease fire offer.Georgia claims to have fully withdrawn from South Ossetia. It's unclear whether the Georgians mean the part of South Ossetia that was...
Bringing you the news the other blogs won't [okay; some of them will]... Here are some questions, and some attempts at answers. What are the latest developments?The fighting continues, including.
Last post was getting a little clogged...The NYT is reporting a bunch of interesting stuff, not least this:The de facto government of pro-Russian Abkhazia asked United Nations peacekeepers to depart.