Tag: "Abkhazia"

A Return to Realpolitik?

| August 13, 2008 | Comments (3)

Ross Douthat, in a post titled “unrealpolitik” asks an interesting question. After he recounts that russia could make our lives much more difficult with Iran and Afghanistan if we take a hard line on them, or arm the Georgian military with truly modern weaponry, he comes to the real nut of the matter: Is the [...]

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Russia Presses the Advantage, Captures Undisputed Georgian Territory.

| August 11, 2008 | Comments (2)

So it’s come to this. The President of Georgia, on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, is reduced to practically begging us to help his nation as Russian tanks capture undisputed Georgian territory. Russia has delivered an ultimatum to the Georgian government and things are looking dire indeed for the survival of the [...]

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