Comment the First: Georgia is going to end up like The Mouse That Roared. We will rebuild them to be the Rose of the Caucasus, while Russia’s two new adoptees will degenerate into sullen drunkeness, just like the rest of Russia. It’ll be fun, because I’m pretty sure the Georgians will be fully behind the effort.

Comment the Second: Lots of stories today about Russia shooting at journalists. And ensuing shock and outrage on behalf of those journalists. How odd — after Iraq I sort of thought the new meme would be “we *like* perforated journalists”!

Comment the Third: Disagree that Wretchard should block the obvious Ivans posting here. They’re not any worse than American moonbats and they’re fun to toy with.