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http://noviny.narod.ru/A0002016.html

[Army Air Corps]

The knocked-out vehicles appear to be Georgian. I saw some bearing the distinctive Georgian script.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[FReepaholic]

Sobering images.

I pity the poor non-combatants caught up in this.

[Sax]

Hi! We’re Russia. We used to be the Soviet Union. We will be again. How you ask? Simple. We’ve learned through history that the collective developed world has a huge willingness to accept, what appears on the surface to be, isolated incrementalist encroachment and violation of minor states, rather than confront unpleasantness. (See Chamberlain)

It’s simple really, stir a false rebellion within the former soviet state, and then we roll tanks into to rescue the “persecuted” minority rebels. Once the smoke clears, we’re there, dug in, and everyone else can go f*** themselves.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Yeah, that’s BS. Folks didn’t ‘forget’ history, it just doesn’t get any easier to make the hard calls, and it’s so simple to fool yourself into thinking what’s happening, really isn’t. They should call it. Same s***, and hindsight 20/20’s a nasty bastard to have to live with.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

War is Hell, but, as long as there is evil in this world, we will always have war.

[Greysard]

The destroyed tanks in the top pictures (no captions unfortunately) are shown in a city. This city is Tskhinvali (spelling per the road sign in one of photos,) and so it must be Georgian tanks because Georgia used tanks to enter the city. But the journalist in his write-up says that *he* couldn't tell which side the tanks belonged to, so much they burned out. I'd give it 70% / 30%.

Wounded troops are Russian. The troops standing guard over two captive Georgians are Chechens.

The "Elit Electronics" store has also its name in Georgian, and you can see the same script elsewhere in the photos (captured documents.)

I think the last photo shows the author, but I couldn't be sure.

[Snurple]

Do these crap eating bolsheviks have any equipment that wasn’t manufactured pre 1960?

[scan59]

Moving pictures, especially towards the end. Sometimes it's helpful to get a glimpse of what war is really like.

Good post.

[fernwood]

Those who have white armband are the S. Ossetian irregulars who looted and murdered with abandon.