With the income from oil and other exports as well as a well-developed military-industrial complex, Russia can (and probably will) crush Georgia, as it did over 80 years ago. I wish situation in Georgia and South Ossetia were otherwise, but then I wish neither Obama nor McCain were the nauseating choices we’re stuck with.

And I was considering visiting Georgia, the country, this September!

I haven’t heard much about Chechnya of late. Did the Russians finally kill enough people there or did they institute a successful press blackout therefrom?