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Who’s winning Georgia Part 2

August 10, 2008 - 6:51 am - by Richard Fernandez
Susan Katz Keating
2008-08-10 11:44:16

In response to the folks above who seem to think the U.S. could/would rattle swords at Moscow over this: think again. The only reason Putin (yes, I believe he is calling the shots) gave the OK on attacking Georgia is he knew the U.S. would do absolutely nothing. True, we are allied with Georgia. But we also need Russia, and we’re not going to gum up the complicated alliance by intervening in South Ossetia.