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The ghost in the machine 2

August 14, 2008 - 2:17 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-08-15 11:51:40

That Poland thing has probably tweaked Putin big-time. If he’s worried that there’s more to come if he can’t scare the rest of them out of it first — and he must be — he might calculate that punishing Georgia severely while we stand lamely by is his best move. He’s already invested the price he’ll pay for perfidy, so there’s not much downside on that front, but he still has to place his bet on Bush’s response.