Russian military retakes border village: Georgia

Reuters ^ | Sat Dec 13 | Reporting by Margarita Antidze and Matt Robinson; editing by Elizabeth Piper

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TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia said on Saturday hundreds of Russian soldiers had moved into a disputed Georgian village near breakaway South Ossetia and had pushed out Georgian police, fuelling fears of confrontation.

A regional police official and an interior ministry spokesman said between 500 and 600 Russian soldiers were in the village of Perevi, close to the de facto border with the region.

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[Grimmy]

Putie tried to Anschluss the Ukraine and is now getting away with pulling a Sudetenland in Georgia. He’s also begun pushing up on Poland.

Anyone else see a familiar pattern here? Especially in the craven, cowardly, pathetically weak reactions to his predations by the “western powers”?

[autumnraine]

Maybe Obama can suggest a UN Councel meeting to stop it.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

this scraes me with Obama the empty suit as POTUS.

[P-Marlowe]

this scraes me with Obama the empty suit as POTUS.

Obviously it doesn't scare the Ruskies.

[ladyvet]

....Call me if you need me.....

[DaveTesla]

Let me guess,
the Georgian’s started it. /S

Their will be a whole slew of people along any minute to claim they did.

[AdvisorB]

This is just Putin’s openning salvo against little Barry and his perceived weakness as an incoming POTUS.

If you can’t stand up to Blago, how are you going to be able to stand up to Putin, BinLaden, ElCamisa Roja, the Dear Leader (in whatever hospital bed he’s in now), the Supreme Leader and his little pimp, and the mindless twit in Damascus?

[Repeal The 17th]

Inch by inch.

[Perdogg]

ping

[82ndABNOfficer]

I don’t think this is going to be anything to worry about. I don’t see a large scale invasion under way, but it is interesting that they would re-take a town that really has no strategic value. Maybe the Russians are calculating that with our economy in the dumps, our president-elect embroiled in a scandal, and our military stretched thin that it can get away with bullying smaller republics? Should be interesting to see how this Russia-Georgia scenario plays out.

[444Flyer]

Well, President-Elect Obama is a little tied up right now with his own “issues” and doesn't have time to deal with this big ole’ meanie.

[AmericanVictory]

We bet he won’t pop up and say anything about this.

[Domandred]

Obama: This is not the Putin I know, um er I had no contact with Putin, no I mean Putin is just a typical white person, um er what we need is change, and hope, er dang Bush’s fault!

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Goal: Drive up the price of oil.

[StAnDeliver]

"I don’t think this is going to be anything to worry about. I don’t see a large scale invasion under way, but it is interesting that they would re-take a town that really has no strategic value.

A really pathetic attempt by Pootin to run up oil and natural gas prices, nothing more and nothing less.

[StAnDeliver]

That's what I get for not scrolling to the end of the thread. You were first! *hat tip*