Mike Slywester -
“Russia has had military forces in Southern Ossetia continuously since the year 1801. For comparison, Ohio became a US state in the year 1803.”
Just damn. Thanks for the history lesson. I never read no books, mister.
All kidding aside, Putin isn’t getting any younger, and without international fear Russia remains a loose-knit confederation of petty thieves under an oligarchy of crooks who let the world slip through their fingers.
But this style of set -piece ambush while Bush, the only Western leader likely to intervene, and with the means to make it stick has less than a half year remaining in office shows how high the stakes are.
If the Russians aren’t after Georgia, they’ve certainly picked a strange force mix for this “spontaneous” operation, haven’t they?
Phibs? Blockade?
I never said that Russia was out to invade Europe by next Tuesday.
But are they maneuvering to take over our baby sitting job?
Fuck yes. I’d say “welcome to it” except for….
Well, damn, the only reason I really object now is because I know enough history ( I lied – we have a lending library on the turnip tru ck, Mike) to know that dictatorships expand or die, and that America has been the curb where the last century’s bosses splattered.
We had real allies then. And statesmen here at home; enough, at least, to see the fight through. And let’s not forget all the fields of crosses in those Old Countries, or on those shitty little coral islands between Australia and Okinawa.
No, Mike, I’m just blowing it out my ass.
Putin executes his partition of Georgia this month, on his terms, then he’s looking at the next four years against Mr. Community Organizer or Angry McAmnesty. Oh, and NATO and the UN, too. I bet he’s got quite the tingle going up his leg.
U.S. air on station within the week, U.S. brokered truce guaranteeing Georgian sovereignty within a month. And the media will ignore it. The bear will go back in the cave until next summer.
Make more sense now?
How’d you like to be a Pole? Or a Turk, Mike?
Think about it.
