How far from Georgia are the pumping stations for Russia’s oil and gas pipelines going to Europe?

Give Russia a firm but nonspecific warning to get out of Georgia. If they fail to do so, supply the Georgian military with cruise missiles targeting each and every pumping station. Time their launches so they strike their targets within seconds of each other Russia has, after all, gone after Georgia’s pipeline. This would only be tit-for-tat. And it would cost them tens of billions of dollars.

This attack has disturbing parallels. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, G. K. Chesterton warned that the future peace of Europe depended on helping the small countries of Eastern Europe resist German aggression. In 1932, he even warned that if nothing was done the next war would begin over a border dispute between Germany and Poland, precisely what happened seven years later.

This is precisely the same situation, merely displaced southward, as Russia attempts to push its power toward the oil-rich Middle East.

–Michael W. Perry, editor of Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II