Georgians HATE Russians; they even hated them after the Bear gave them some trustee land for joining the short-lived Commonwealth of Independent States. Georgians breached the trust, in an orgy of neo-Stalinism and aid to Chechen jihadis. Russians don’t want HATERS on their doorstep. Kudos to them. See this letter between Georgia’s Stalin2 and the Georgian who toppled him in a dose of Realpolitick (Yah, Shevardnadze was the last Foreign Minister of the USSR).

http://web.archive.org/web/20010414023800/http:/www.geocities.com/shavlego/ZG_Letter_SH.htm

Georgia wasn’t a country it was a concept in Soviet Republicanism. Its Stalinist leaders – yes the statues still stand – wanted to become a NATO launch post. See ya, suckas!!!

Can the Jimmy Carter/Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark rhetoric! That’s stale.