Life: besides the fact that for the moment the situation in Georgia has moved beyond their brief, don’t you imagine that now with Palin in the mix, American political considerations moves to a stage that is almost unitelligable to outsiders, particularly GRU operatives or their private epigones.

Perhaps a Canadian or even a Brit might get it — if they have some knowledge of (and sympahty for) the US, but few Continentals or “citizens” of the CIS region could scarcely comprehend her import in the least.

What Palin represents is unthinkable to them — unknowable, in fact.