A Second Hand Conjecture

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS McFaul docks in Poti, still under Russian occupation. Hopefully Russian troops are sober enough not to freelance an ill-advised incident like they have elsewhere in Georgia.

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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 acquired a rapacious reputation among Georgians. Thus it could expand the humanitarian crisis in Western [...]

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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:
“Ossetians are killing poor Georgians, this is a problem and we are trying to deal with it”. He said his troops had been ordered to [...]

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Exactly.
Now, as for Lee’s latest… Let’s just say I’ll be shocked if Saakashvili lasts the year.

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(photo: Charles Roffey - Charles & Fred)
Someone once said that in Damascus you truly can get a little bit pregnant. It’s a good aphorism, because if you asked the foreign minister of almost any state in the Middle East or the Mediterranean what his government’s policy relationship was with Syria, he would automatically furrow his [...]

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