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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; Georgia</title>
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		<title>Pulling Strings in Foreign Relations</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/05/05/pulling-strings-in-foreign-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/05/05/pulling-strings-in-foreign-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 19:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith's Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems to be an awful lot of &#8220;testing&#8221; going on. Mutiny in Georgia!!! Iran attacks Kurdish guerillas in Iraq with helicopters Pakistan is melting down!!! Chinese Ships Come Dangerously Close to American Vessel]]></description>
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		<title>Georgian Mutiny Put Down</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/05/05/georgian-mutiny-put-down/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/05/05/georgian-mutiny-put-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgia has stopped a tank battalion mutiny. Naturally the Russians are suspected of being behind it. I&#8217;ve been wondering if President Obama will continue support for Georgia, and cause the ire of a belligerent Russia.]]></description>
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		<title>Sarkozy The Georgian Hero?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/sarkozy-the-georgian-hero/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/sarkozy-the-georgian-hero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chris' Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceasefire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Putin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure how true this is, but here&#8217;s what the London Times says about how close Putin came to over throwing the Georgian government. With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr Sarkozy told Mr Putin &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/sarkozy-the-georgian-hero/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia&#8217;s Tapes</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/16/georgias-tapes/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/16/georgias-tapes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daily Telegraph]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who jumped first in South Ossetia has become a bit of a information war between Georgia and Russia. Today, the Georgian government went a ways toward resolving it by releasing recordings of intercepted radio traffic preceding the Russian invasion. The &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/16/georgias-tapes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The New Russian Diplomacy of Profanity</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Miliband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign secretary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian FM Sergei Lavrov reportedly went berserk on David Miliband in phone discussions over the Georgia war. Apparently he was raving, shouting obscenities, and ridiculing Miliband&#8217;s knowledge of history. There&#8217;s something incredibly deranged about that government. They&#8217;ve taken the traditional &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Four Hours to Tbilisi</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/four-hours-to-tbilisi/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/four-hours-to-tbilisi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abkhazia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bagpash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eduard Kokoity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mikheil Saakashvili]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, well. Mr. Putin held a press conference and there&#8217;s much to condemn as usual. Not the least of which is Putin&#8217;s continued delusion that Russia was invaded by Georgia. But foremost perhaps, is an education for those who argued &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/four-hours-to-tbilisi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Buying Tymoshenko</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/buying-tymoshenko/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/buying-tymoshenko/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the European Union commendably attempts to pull Ukraine closer into the safety of the West, Russia has reportedly earmarked $1 billion to fund suddenly pro-Kremlin Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, against heroically pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko in the 2010 presidential &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/buying-tymoshenko/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Independence to Scale</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/independence-to-scale/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/independence-to-scale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertisement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no surrender]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another splendid ad for SOSGeorgia. I say again, in the conceptual appeal to world opinion, the Georgians are simply better at this sort of thing than their far better financed adversaries. (Carpetblog)]]></description>
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		<title>Medvedev&#8217;s Caribbean Dream</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/medvedevs-caribbean-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/medvedevs-caribbean-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A depressingly confused analogy from Medvedev on US aid to Georgia: &#8220;I wonder how they would like it if we sent humanitarian assistance using our navy to countries of the Caribbean that have suffered from the recent hurricanes.&#8221; (AFP) We&#8217;d &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/medvedevs-caribbean-dream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Anders Aslund on the Russian Economy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/anders-aslund-on-the-russian-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/anders-aslund-on-the-russian-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After forcefully savaging the Russian invasion of Georgia, controversial Swedish economist Anders Aslund lays out ten reasons he expects an impending economic collapse in Russia. Each point is sound, although some are more problematic than others. Particularly cogent are the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/anders-aslund-on-the-russian-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Declinism as Exceptionalism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama argues in the Financial Times that the United States should have traded European missile defense and/or Kosovar independence in order to pacify a resurgent Russia. This strange proposal of strategic charity work for the Kremlin, is animated by &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China and Provincial Secessionism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extremely interesting post from Seth Weinberger on the opportunity for pulling China in the pro-Georgia camp, after the SCO failed to endorse Russian actions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Seth is as mystified as I am that the Russian foreign &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Black Signs at the Exhibition</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/black-signs-at-the-exhibition/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/black-signs-at-the-exhibition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IMF has come through for Georgia in an enormous way, approving a $750 million credit line for the beleaguered republic. Beyond the much needed aid, it&#8217;s a powerful political reminder for Russia of the gargantuan economic advantage the West &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/black-signs-at-the-exhibition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Albright Supports Georgian NATO Membership</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/albright-supports-georgian-nato-membership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often find former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright&#8217;s supporting arguments irksome and occasionally even masochistic. But she has a certain knack for ending up in the right place by the wrong course. It&#8217;s a unique skill really. Thus it &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/albright-supports-georgian-nato-membership/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia Cuts Loose</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/georgia-cuts-loose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saakashvili has finally severed all Georgian diplomatic ties with Russia. A bit overdue, I must say. Meanwhile, Putin, in his ongoing effort to legitimize the Russian invasion of Georgia, again compared his country&#8217;s actions to the NATO intervention against Serbia &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/georgia-cuts-loose/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>War of Conquest</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/war-of-conquest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days into Russian-declared, universally unrecognized independence (excluding Hamas and Belarus), South Ossetian officials have expressed their desire to be annexed by Russia. The brave new defenders of Russian imperialism on the American Left have thus suddenly found &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/war-of-conquest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth About Russia in Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/the-truth-about-russia-in-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Totten is in Georgia interviewing actual Georgian soldiers and finding out what went on behind the scenes of this conflict. Turns out Saakashvili didn&#8217;t start it after all.]]></description>
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		<title>How The West Will Win</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/20/how-the-west-will-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Totten has a succinct yet informative post up from the Georgian capital of Tblisi: And my translator, whose husband works for Georgia’s ministry of foreign affairs, made a similar guess that the West helped save the capital. “The night &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/20/how-the-west-will-win/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Blogs Failed the War in Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/19/how-blogs-failed-the-war-in-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columbia Journalism Review asked me to write an essay criticizing blogger coverage of the War in Georgia. As I&#8217;m sure you can imagine, I was scathing. While this wasn’t necessarily surprising—after all, these blogs all talk in a big circle, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/19/how-blogs-failed-the-war-in-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/18/quote-of-the-day-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely, some of our terms for peace will have to be modified to correspond to new realities on the ground and to achieve our ultimate ends, which are security for the Kosovars and peace and stability in the Balkans. Genuine &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/18/quote-of-the-day-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not the Response Russia Had Hoped For</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/not-the-response-russia-had-hoped-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instapundit &#8220;German Chancellor Angela Merkel is offering strong support for Georgia, saying the country is on track to become a member of NATO. Merkel flew to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Sunday, two days after she met with Russian &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/17/not-the-response-russia-had-hoped-for/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Further Fallout for Russia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/further-fallout-for-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now Ukraine invites Western participation in her missile defense. Regionally, Russia&#8217;s actions in Georgia can only be poisonous to her interests. Coercive force is the only way to compel compliance once you&#8217;ve used it so malevolently. Not such a wonderful &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/further-fallout-for-russia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Vandalism of Russian Occupation</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/the-vandalism-of-russian-occupation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ceasefire be damned,* the Russian army reportedly destroyed the Metekhi-Grakali railway bridge. The bridge was used by Georgian refugees fleeing the mayhem in the Russian occupied zones given that the highway is controlled by the Russian army, which has naturally &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/the-vandalism-of-russian-occupation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Air Defense Retrospective</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In From the Cold wonders why Russian tactical aircraft proved so vulnerable to an air defense system they knew intimately. I&#8217;d merely say that low-and-slow Russian tactics are going to get you shot eventually, whatever the SAM is on the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/air-defense-retrospective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Imperialism and the Election</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/russian-imperialism-and-the-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Chris Dunn) John Bolton argues that the future of Russian imperialism in Eurasia rides on the outcome of the US presidential election. Unsurprisingly, he pitches McCain: &#8220;First reactions, before the campaigns’ pollsters and consultants get involved are always the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/russian-imperialism-and-the-election/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NATO Protection only for Perfection?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/nato-protection-only-for-perfection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Harrowell reminds us that NATO wasn&#8217;t always so timorous about conflict risk exposure: [I]f we assume that Georgia, and specifically Mikhail Saakashvili’s version of it, wasn’t sufficiently responsible (adult, civilised, possibly even white?) to play, how do we explain &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/nato-protection-only-for-perfection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Unity of Black Hearts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian Major General Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Borisov, in command of occupied Gori, has finally received orders to do something about the Russian allied irregulars who are rampaging in Georgia committing atrocities: &#8220;Ossetians are killing poor Georgians, this is a problem and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/a-unity-of-black-hearts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Belligerent Peacekeeper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geert Jan Alexander Knoops]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Amsterdam speaks with Geert Jan Alexander Knoops, an expert on international law governing peacekeeping missions, who concludes the Russian claims of acting as belligerent peacekeepers, have no legal foundation in international law. Amsterdam further observes that by citing the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/the-belligerent-peacekeeper/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Georgian Wine Solidarity and Other Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estonians and Latvians are apparently buying up all available Georgian wine in a demonstration of national solidarity with the beleaguered republic. Particularly popular is the consumer label Old Tbilisi (order here). Sandra Saakashvili, First Lady of Georgia, is weathering the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/georgian-wine-solidarity-and-other-things/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirate Army</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CCTV video capture of Russian soldiers robbing a Gori bank at gunpoint. While plunder has a bit of an enduring tradition in the Russian army even in modern times, this is pretty extreme. I&#8217;d be abusing the event as metaphor, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/the-pirate-army/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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