Beginning to frame the Ossetia violence
It's really surprising that it took someone so long to mention this in regards to the Russia/Georgia/Ossetia (and now Abkhazia?) violence.
The British Daily Mail headline: The Pipeline War.
Also, The NYTimes has an interesting piece framing the violence against current state of macro geopolitical play.
Per BBC, "Georgia says its troops have withdrawn from the breakaway region of South Ossetia and that Russian forces are in control of its capital, Tskhinvali."
NYTimes "Georgian authorities expect Russian attacks to come on three fronts on Sunday — from Gali and Zugdidi, two spots on the Abkhazian border, and from Ossetia, according to Gigi Ugulada, the mayor of Tbilisi."
Later: (AP) "A senior U.S. military official says the Americans have begun flying Georgian troops (2,000) home from Iraq after they requested help with transportation."
(Let me say again that former Soviet bloc is an area where I have little expertise.)
The British Daily Mail headline: The Pipeline War.
Also, The NYTimes has an interesting piece framing the violence against current state of macro geopolitical play.
Per BBC, "Georgia says its troops have withdrawn from the breakaway region of South Ossetia and that Russian forces are in control of its capital, Tskhinvali."
NYTimes "Georgian authorities expect Russian attacks to come on three fronts on Sunday — from Gali and Zugdidi, two spots on the Abkhazian border, and from Ossetia, according to Gigi Ugulada, the mayor of Tbilisi."
Later: (AP) "A senior U.S. military official says the Americans have begun flying Georgian troops (2,000) home from Iraq after they requested help with transportation."
(Let me say again that former Soviet bloc is an area where I have little expertise.)
posted by mikevotes at
6:44 AM
4 Comments:
It will be interesting when the dust settles to see if Saakashvili got a green light from somewhere.
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Anonymous, at 1:49 PM
I would think he'd have had to have run it by the US at least in some vague hypothetical.
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mikevotes, at 3:43 PM
You didn't finish that last sentence.
(I do that too sometimes).
By
realist, at 5:06 PM
Yeah.
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mikevotes, at 6:07 PM
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