When Georgia ran into a conflict with its northern neighbor in 2008, it experienced considerable solidarity on part of its main Western ally. The United States supplied military transporters to fly back Georgian troops from Afghanistan, which was correctly understood by the Russians as a warning that the US would not allow Georgia to fall. While the Russians had already taken Gori, Condoleeza Rice and Michail Saakashvili held a joint press conference in Tbilisi, just 80 km away. Surprised by the American determination to defend small Georgia, the Russian...
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Eric, the nice thing about this dispute is that we can just wait and see who was right . Relatively soon we will know the performa... Read More
Monday, 08 June 2015 10:10 PM
I don't think the Western treatment was all that different. There were no (and will not be) NATO boots on the ground in either Geo... Read More
Monday, 08 June 2015 9:09 AM
It reads like a post-mortem justification of what you call a pragmatic approach (And I know you are doing it out of curiosity, wit... Read More
Monday, 08 June 2015 10:10 AM