Fox News (which has been solid on this thus far):Russian forces swept across Georgia on Monday, capturing the town of Gori and moving to within 35 miles of the capital city Tbilisi, FOX News confirmed.Georgia reportedly was rushing more than 1,000 troops to Tbilisi in...
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My guess would be . . . Munich, 1938!What do I win?BTW it would be difficult to top this phrase for some sort of Neo-Con Unselfconscious Irony Award: "Fanatics aren’t.
For alcoholics, angry loners, and the unemployable who happen to have 50 minutes to kill.... Heilbrunn is a little bit more Realist than myself, but I think that we have.
A brief round-up; I'll have more tomorrow on Russia-NATO and Russia-US relations specifically. At this point the situation in Georgia doesn't seem to have changed radically from what it was this afternoon.Galrahn has an update on the situation in the Black Sea.Charli Carpenter talks about...
McCain supporters are obviously going to try and run a good distance with the argument that he was somehow "prescient" on the question of Russian power. I'm not quite sure.
This looks like a surrender to me:Georgia's Foreign Ministry said its soldiers were observing a cease-fire on orders of the president and declared the move in a note handed over.
I am told by a source that Izvestiya is claiming that an American working with Georgian forces has been captured by the Russians. Here's the link; as I don't read Russian, I can't confirm anything.Hat tip to CT....here's the translation:A group of Georgian explosives experts...
The plot to distract the world from the glory of the 2008 Olympic Games continues to unfold:Russia has not accepted Georgia's cease fire offer.Georgia claims to have fully withdrawn from.
Bringing you the news the other blogs won't [okay; some of them will]... Here are some questions, and some attempts at answers. What are the latest developments?The fighting continues, including.
Last post was getting a little clogged...The NYT is reporting a bunch of interesting stuff, not least this:The de facto government of pro-Russian Abkhazia asked United Nations peacekeepers to depart from their posts in the Kodori Gorge, a small mountainous area that Georgia had reclaimed...
Your morning Confrontation in the Caucasus (somebody tell me if CNN picks up that catchy alliteration, so I can sue) update:Georgia claims to have shot down ten Russian aircraft; the.
Further thoughts on the developing crisis...Whose Fault?In an earlier post I suggested that the question of moral righteousness in this war is muddled; both Georgia and Russia have plausible justice.