Tag: "Ukraine"
Is Putin Overreaching?
Is Russia getting overconfident? Having beaten down Georgia, the Russians have the chance to claim the South Ossetia region, where they’ve been agitating and issuing Georgians Russian passports, for quite a few years. Georgian President Saakashvili has signed a rather weak cease-fire agreement that leaves his country open to further Russian aggression. They have, very [...]
A Return to Realpolitik?
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 [...]
Russia Presses the Advantage, Captures Undisputed Georgian Territory.
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 [...]
Russia Takes South Ossetia, Eyes the Rest of Georgia, Seeks to Oust Georgian President (Updates: A Couple of Likely Reasons)
Russia continues to attack Georgia itself by air while its troops now have undisputed control of South Ossetia. Russia had already devastated the port city of Poti and it intensified its attacks today with bombing missions against military targets outside the Georgian capital of Tblisi and an all=out bombing offensive on the city of Gori. [...]
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