EU had their emergency meeting today –check it out –Russia as much as said, ”do anything we don’t like and we’ll kick your ass” (meanwhile overflying Bear bombers along the northern edge of Europe). Yesterday some Red admiral said he could sink the Nato flotilla in 20 minutes. That’s quite a pop-off, from an admiral. And the latest dead dissident newsman –gov’t agents arrested him, and dumped his body 20 minutes later, bullet thru the head. Unmistakable signal: ‘we no longer care what you think’. Today they accused USA of smuggling weapons to Georgia in the humanitarian aid. USA denied it –but why? –why SHOULDn’t we be re-arming Georgia? We’re just having to tread lightly because they got a bunch of arty trained on Tblisi, and are giving every appearance of a hair trigger. And the invasion itself –Ivan is spoiling for ”settling the frozen conflicts” –and is setting it up so that our every counter becomes their further “national security need” to settle those ”frozens”. He’s assuming these border wars will stay limited, and that fighting along his borders he can win. This means that every bordering neighbor is now a hostage against us fighting back anywhere at all. Interior lines of communication –what made Germany so hard to defeat. And it’s September –be cold before long. Aggression verbal & real –sure he’s running a bluff that NATO won’t declare war –EU today didn’t do much to disabuse him. Whole thing is a”stolen march” –that will take some effort and will to redress. Nato needs to start a build-up. That 40% of its oil & gas coming from the target of the build-up –that situation ain’t in the books anywhere i know of. Unknown territory.