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Well, that's another holiday destination ruled out
OK, it looks as if Russia is trying to do to Georgia in re South Ossetia what NATO did to Serbia in re Kosovo; I'm a little surprised I haven't heard Russian politicians making the comparison explicit. Except that Kosovo did not seek immediate merger with Albania, whilst I suspect the resolution of the current mess may well have South Ossetia become part of Russia de jure rather than the current de-facto status.
Time to import more wine, maybe. My sympathies are generally with Georgia, small democracies starting off with quite a lot of points in their favour against Russia, except for the major detail that, as far as I can see, Georgia started this debacle. They can't have expected the Russians to behave other than they have, so what did they expect to achieve?
Has Lebanon been war-free for long enough to contemplate a visit? My plans for Easter 2009 are still unformed.
Time to import more wine, maybe. My sympathies are generally with Georgia, small democracies starting off with quite a lot of points in their favour against Russia, except for the major detail that, as far as I can see, Georgia started this debacle. They can't have expected the Russians to behave other than they have, so what did they expect to achieve?
Has Lebanon been war-free for long enough to contemplate a visit? My plans for Easter 2009 are still unformed.
what did they expect to achieve
It would have been insane to imagine either that Russia would stand by, or that NATO wouldn't.
Georgia's decision-makers could of course be deluded, it wouldn't be the first time a war started that way.
Perhaps it was a deliberate attempt to make Russia play its hand now rather than at some point in the future.