@poul:
It is not racist to refer to a gangster operation run by Russian General Officers as criminal, especially when the tiny Farsi-like-speaking minority they have hijacked has no say in what they do in their name. Check out the numbers of ethnic Ossettians in exile vs. how many neo-fascist hooligan adventurers Pukin has recruited to replace them.

They’ll be cleaning toilets on the Metro for an awfully long time before Czar Puke-in lets them back in South “Ossettia”.

Hard words, yes; life is hard, oy.

No, the Ossettian’s do not deserve to suffer for the sins of neo-Czarist gangsters, but they do and they will. So will many other little peoples in the Causcasus suffer, just like they have suffered under the Czars since 1800, under the Ottomans before that, before that the Seljuks, the whoevers, …[to Hell with all of them...oops, sorry, all the Imperialists are already in Hell, my bad].

Is there such a thingie as a power that is smart enough NOT to be imperialist? Why, yes, and thank you for asking. It is us, the United States of America; may God Bless us all, American or not, every single one.