I still can’t figure out why anybody gives a rat’s ass about Georgia. It’s a dysfunctional hill-billy enclave full of primitive, cruel, bad-tempered, revenge-seeking misfits. And it’s always been so. Their most famous citizen was Joe Stalin. Every once in a while the place needs a slap on the side of the head. In America, you have no idea what it’s like having neighbours like that. Maybe it’s a shame for a “new democracy” full of bad-tempered mafiosos to be whacked like that, but, really, who cares? They need it. If Russia didn’t wallop them into shape every few years, the Turks would have joyfully killed them all of long ago and this would be a non-story.