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...
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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.
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 this afternoon.Galrahn has an update on the situation in the Black Sea.Charli Carpenter talks about...
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.
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 Russian, I can't confirm anything.Hat tip to CT....here's the translation:A group of Georgian explosives experts...
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2008 Olympic Games continues to unfold:Russia has not accepted Georgia's cease fire offer.Georgia claims to have fully withdrawn from.
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.