“The Russian newspaper cited a Russian Defense Ministry report published three months prior that claims over the past four years Turkey has supplied Georgia with $45 million in weapons and ammunition, as well as training Georgian army officers.”
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I assume that in return for the weapons and ammunition, Georgia supplied Turkey with $45 million in cash or goods. In other words, Turkey has been SELLING not SUPPLYING weapons to Georgia. This relationship reminds me of various other arrangements where, for example, Russia supplies weapons to various countries, in exchange for which those very same countries supply (and this is not a coincidence!) cash and other goods of equal value to Russia.

Since the Georgians have completely destroyed Tskhinvali, why should they fight the Russians to stay there? Now, because of the Georgians, the former city of Tskhinvali is a flat area of ground, kind of like a meadow or open plain. It’s a place where a lot of civiilians used to live last week, but nobody lives there this week, because there are no buildings to live in. So, I don’t think there is an issue of the Georgians being “driven out.” Rather, they left an empty place.