Your morning Confrontation in the Caucasus (somebody tell me if CNN picks up that catchy alliteration, so I can sue) update:Georgia claims to have shot down ten Russian aircraft; the Russians say they've lost two. Significant Russian air attacks over Georgia, which makes me suspect...
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Further thoughts on the developing crisis...Whose Fault?In an earlier post I suggested that the question of moral righteousness in this war is muddled; both Georgia and Russia have plausible justice.
How better to explain that the war between Georgia and Russia is no longer the number one story on CNN or Memeorandum or ABC or CBS? To their extraordinary credit,.
[I would redirect people towards this post (a more recent analysis) and this one (a roundup of the morning's news and analysis]We're likely to here quite a lot from the right about Russian perfidy in the next couple of days, but the situation is, of...
Looks like we have a situation developing between Russia and Georgia. Were I Saakashvili, I probably wouldn't have picked this fight......Doug Merrill has an update on the situation, and provides.
Let me go on record as saying that whatever minimal value there might be in returning Abkhazia to Georgia (and the value may indeed be negative, since the residents of.
This backs up something I heard at the recent International Studies Association meeting:A statement from the Russian foreign ministry said that "a bridgehead is being prepared for the start of military operations against Abkhazia".Russia accuses Georgia of amassing 1,500 soldiers and police near the rebel...
Like Matt, I don't have any principled opposition to Ukrainian membership in NATO. It will irritate the Russians, yes, but I don't have a terrible lot of sympathy for Russia.
In 1184, the Lord High Steward of Georgia was given, for his troubles and services, a small duchy on the Black Sea. Duke Vardan II Dadiani ruled Mingrelia, an area.