Understanding Georgia
If anyone else is as bewildered by the sudden Georgia-Russia war as I was, these two posts at Daily Kos may help:
"US Transporting Georgian Troops Out of Iraq to Fight Russia" (with multi-lingual maps!) discusses the political background between the US and Georgia, including their support for the Iraq war in return for the training they needed to fight Russia to win back breakaway territory.
"Georgia: oil, neocons, cold war and our credibility" discusses this conflict in the wider context of oil and history.
And after reading those, you know everything I know about this Georgia thing.
Update: Oh, I guess it's over already.
"US Transporting Georgian Troops Out of Iraq to Fight Russia" (with multi-lingual maps!) discusses the political background between the US and Georgia, including their support for the Iraq war in return for the training they needed to fight Russia to win back breakaway territory.
"Georgia: oil, neocons, cold war and our credibility" discusses this conflict in the wider context of oil and history.
And after reading those, you know everything I know about this Georgia thing.
Update: Oh, I guess it's over already.