“Russia has no intention to take over Georgia. All the current events can be explained satisfactorily without having to resort to any paranoid belief in any such evil intention.”

You know this because your KGB handler told you, right?
NONE of the events can be explained by anything other then a resurgent Russia looking to regain their former “glory”.
How many people will die as your masters try to turn back the hands of time. The same conditions that created the fall of the Soviet Union are still there. Until those conditions are addressed, Putin’s dictatorship will do no better then the Soviet Union did.

The Soviet Union never tried to put the OIL squeeze on Europe for two reasons. First Communist principals of dialectical materialism ‘proved’ that Europe would eventually fall into the Soviet, that it was inevitable that Socialism prevail and then evolve into Communism.
Second was that the USA would have been able to supply Europe enough OIL to support a war.
That all changed when the Soviet Union fell and the dialectic proved to be horse turds on a goat trail. Then the USA burned up all our easy to get at OIL and started to draw down the rest of the worlds easy to get at OIL.
The 21st century Russia IS NOT your father’s Soviet Union. The dictator in the Kremlin knows that Communism is BULLSH1T and that the West is weak in will power. If Russia gets a firm grip on Europes OIL supplies, they can force Europe to choose between a nasty war and being “Finlanized”. I’m betting Eurostan goes the way of Finland.
Mike, if Russia withdraws from Georgia, then I’m wrong and they are a bunch of swell fellows, who only practice rape, murder and mayhem on an irregular basis.
If I’m right, then you are a traitor, IF you are a member of western civilization.
I suspect you are Baghdad Bob’s cousin.
Your job is to keep the sheep blissful while the wolf is having lunch.