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Voluntary amputation

August 11, 2008 - 4:16 pm - by Richard Fernandez
fedya
2008-08-11 21:09:57

@cjr:
By taking out Georgia, Russia has cut off this route entirely. All transportation routes now must go through Russia. This basically means Russia controls Central Asia’s economies again.

Spot on!

@wretchard:
And the Long Game allows these things to be fixed patiently without recourse to 1914s.

Which means drinking Georgian wine is sorta like buying War Bonds back in 1942, no?