Pipelines, railroads, roads, can’t be protected against infiltrating raiders –unless the surrounding populations deny them access the targets. No surrounding population, or surrounding population allied with infiltrators, means no pipelines, railroads, or roads. i’ll bet already there;s no insurance avaible at anywhere near normal rates for anything in Georgia, or anything that trades with Georgia, using those three comm links.

All this Russian interest and concern over the various ethnics (all their hyping and instigation of violence among them) is suddenly becoming devilishly clear.