Tag Georgia

Dangerous escalation by the US

The Americans are threatening to have Russia expelled from the WTO and G8. But this may be a serious overestimation of the American’s own influence over these bodies. What the Americans seem unable to detect is that the wind is…

The ceasefire that wasn’t

Georgian Villages in South Ossetia burnt, looted Russian forces sink Georgian ships US forces to be sent to Georgia Talk about an escalation: Bush is sending in the navy and the airforce. You would have to be dead from the…

Our bi-partisan foreign policy in Georgia

This is not some faux-conflict that was ginned up by John McCain and the neoconservatives as some kind of electoral season strategy. And, even if it was (and it’s not) it’s gone far beyond that now. I can hear the…

BBC News fired on by Russian jet

BBC News was fired on while reporting from the front lines in Georgia. The image is from the same report. From DealBreaker, a serious, non-snarky (and for them, being non-snarky is quite unusual!) discussion of what’s happening in Georgia. Who…