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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; South Ossetia</title>
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		<title>Georgian Mutiny Put Down</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/05/05/georgian-mutiny-put-down/</link>
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		<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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[ceasefire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Telegraph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></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>A Shattered Idol in the Black Garden</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Rahim Alizadeh) In Verdi&#8217;s opera Nabucco &#8211;the namesake of the western gas pipeline to Europe that holds the promise of partial independence from Russian energy reliance&#8211; the Jewish patriots take the daughter of the Babylonian king hostage, in order &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/">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>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abkhazia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expansionism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russian foreign ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SCO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secession]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[separatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seth Weinberger]]></category>
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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>Georgia Cuts Loose</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/georgia-cuts-loose/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/georgia-cuts-loose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brussels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/war-of-conquest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[annexation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boris Yeltsin]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/the-truth-about-russia-in-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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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>A Unity of Black Hearts</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/a-unity-of-black-hearts/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/a-unity-of-black-hearts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/the-belligerent-peacekeeper/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/the-belligerent-peacekeeper/#comments</comments>
		<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>Blameless are the Bellicose?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/blameless-are-the-bellicose/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/blameless-are-the-bellicose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Pavel Trebukov &#124; blog) From the gang who brought you the &#8220;because Georgia has invaded its own country we had to attack&#8221; rationale for the South Ossetian War, Poland has now apparently &#8220;made itself a target&#8221; for Russian nuclear &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/blameless-are-the-bellicose/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Photos from the Front</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/photos-from-the-front/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/photos-from-the-front/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[89 amateur snapshots from the war in Georgia. Some are rather gruesome, so avoid this link if you&#8217;ve a weak stomach. It was good to see some US munitions and equipment in Georgian hands too.]]></description>
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		<title>Russia as Rogue</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/russia-as-rogue/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/russia-as-rogue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says &#8220;the world can forget about&#8221; Georgia&#8217;s territorial integrity. Quite a remarkable statement from the former permanent representative to the United Nations. As a statement of purpose or justification in his country&#8217;s war, it is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/russia-as-rogue/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When There&#8217;s Nothing Left to Burn You Have to Set Yourself on Fire</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/when-theres-nothing-left-to-burn-you-have-to-set-yourself-on-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for my absenteeism on this, guys, but I&#8217;ve barely had the time to write on Registan.net about the war in Georgia (seriously, go there for some really in-depth discussions about what is going on), and have simply neglected copying &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/when-theres-nothing-left-to-burn-you-have-to-set-yourself-on-fire/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Invasion of Western Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/the-invasion-of-western-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/the-invasion-of-western-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia has invaded Western Georgia (proper) and captured Senaki, far from Abkhazia. It&#8217;s being billed by a Russian official as a preventive move against Georgian troop concentration. This being yet another new rationale invented on the fly to justify further &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/the-invasion-of-western-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>So Ends the Kouchner Adventure</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/so-ends-the-kouchner-adventure/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/so-ends-the-kouchner-adventure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia wants Saakashvili gone and then categorically rejects the French ceasefire agreement Saakashvili signed. Even while the increasingly uncomfortable Medvedev says they&#8217;re all but finished with military operations. The humiliating exposure of Medvedev&#8217;s &#8220;presidency&#8221; is one of the more comical &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/so-ends-the-kouchner-adventure/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Arms for Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/arms-for-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evidently immune to the historical irony, Israel halted arms shipments to Georgia months ago due to fears of a Russian attack. As an IDF veteran interprets that: &#8220;When we found ourselves in a similar situation, we expected the world to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/arms-for-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Siloviki</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/siloviki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much of the Georgia/South Ossetia/Russian conflict can be laid at the hands of a corrupt cabal of former soviet ministers bent on lining their own pockets? Perhaps a great deal. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has handed his Russian counterpart, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/siloviki/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Found Him</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/found-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joshua hasn&#8217;t disappeared, he just isn&#8217;t gracing us with his opinions on the conflict in the Caucasus, but you can find them at Registan.net, here and here. Heh, Insty links to him, but describes it as peevish (Josh? Peevish? Also, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/found-him/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>QandO Podcast</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/qando-podcast-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[McQ, Dale and I discuss the Russian campaign against Georgia over South Ossetia. Generally I feel that our support should belong to Georgia. However, Georgia has severely miscalculated in this matter, and frankly our options are limited. At best, we &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/qando-podcast-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Glimpse of a Better Outcome for Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/glimpse-of-a-better-outcome-for-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it seemed like escalation was the modal reality, outcomes looked bleak for Georgia. Dynamics change. Thus Georgia&#8217;s ceasefire in South Ossetia cannot be a bad thing under the circumstances. By putting up an initial fight, they drew the attention &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/glimpse-of-a-better-outcome-for-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Serbian&#8221; Claim to South Ossetia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/the-serbian-claim-to-south-ossetia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The point has been made more than once that the Russian incursion into South Ossetia is ideologically motivated as a retaliatory gesture for Kosovo independence. Wu Wei makes a fine point about why this is not plausible if so: The &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/the-serbian-claim-to-south-ossetia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Trouble with American Alliances</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/the-trouble-with-american-alliances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always demanding when they need you, useless and even obstructionist when you actually need them. Our friend Geoff Morrell can serve as something of a personification of that characteristic in fact: Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said the Georgians had requested &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/the-trouble-with-american-alliances/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Testy Times in the Bird&#8217;s Nest</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/testy-times-in-the-birds-nest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd witnessed a heated discussion between Bush and Putin over Georgia.]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Recommendations for the Demented</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/policy-recommendations-for-the-demented/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Helene Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invasion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One can always count on the New York Times for publishing pernicious editorial advice on foreign policy. To duty, Helene Cooper is eager for the US to seize the opportunity of the South Ossetia invasion to&#8230;throw Georgia under the bus &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/policy-recommendations-for-the-demented/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who Owns Tskhinvali?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/who-owns-tskhinvali/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boris Chochiyev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eduard Kokoity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So who is in control of Tskhinvali right now? Russia says Russia, Georgia says Georgia, and the separatists? Take your pick: Eduard Kokoity, self-styled president of the separatist region, said a &#8220;second attempt&#8221; by Georgian forces to retake the town &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/who-owns-tskhinvali/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>US Begins to Align with Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/us-begins-to-align-with-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/us-begins-to-align-with-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tbilisi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slowly the gears turn, but Washington and Tbilisi&#8217;s positions inch further into concord by the minute. The infamous &#8220;unnamed senior US official,&#8221; behind all important news events of the last century has spoken: A senior U.S. official says Russia has &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/us-begins-to-align-with-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peacekeeper No More</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/peacekeeper-no-more/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/peacekeeper-no-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Stubb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSCE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Stubb, chairman of the OSCE, states the obvious but necessary: Russia having become a combatant, can no longer serve in a peacekeeping role in South Ossetia. Which of course eliminates their rationale for intervention.]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Strategic Objectives Changing?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/russian-strategic-objectives-changing/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/russian-strategic-objectives-changing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nabucco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pipeline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wu Wei believes Russia is now targeting the Nabucco gas pipeline in Georgia&#8230;while the Russian NATO envoy argues that strategic objectives are restricted to a South Ossetia protection and warns NATO to stay out. And now Iran gets into the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/russian-strategic-objectives-changing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Some Anonymous South Ossetia Endgame Analysis</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/some-anonymous-south-ossetia-endgame-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/some-anonymous-south-ossetia-endgame-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abkhazia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chechnya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Nexon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russophile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saakashvili]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Nexon gets an email from an anonymous Russia hand speculating on the grim possible outcomes for Georgia: This is not going to end well for Georgia. Russia has expanded its targets beyond the vicinity of South Ossetia, hitting not &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/some-anonymous-south-ossetia-endgame-analysis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Conquest of Georgia?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/the-conquest-of-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/the-conquest-of-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee's Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Lomaya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an unnerving development, the New York Times is reporting that Russia may be preparing for an amphibious assault on Georgia&#8217;s Black Sea coastline. Alexander Lomaya, Secretary of Georgia&#8217;s National Security Council: “Russia has clearly decided to redraw the borders &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/the-conquest-of-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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