Looks Saakashvili is going to play the siege game, ala Sarajevo. The world loves a victim and nothing better than making the Russians look like the Serbs in the mountain tops snipping at civilization.

This was a classic case of ‘bait and draw’ and had nothing to do with Ossetia. Shit, with the number of Israeli and American advisers there all they had to do was migrate to Ossetia and they’d end up being the majority.

I don’t think it takes a thousand advisers to instruct a military on burning villages and hightailing.

Looks like the whole war was about saving Saakashvili’s arse. With recent public opinion waning and the Russophiles gaining strength, the only way to keep the Russians at bay was by welcoming them in.

Good ol’ classic psych ops, get a hostile population to back the tyrannical leader by inviting in an even more tyrannical outsider. The rational civilians are backed into a corner, nationalism or betrayal.

On that basis this is going to be loooong and drawn out, nothing like making the civis suffer to gain public opinion……..