[SevenofNine]

I think there might be another Checheya coming into to play here

[mmichaels1970]

Why didn’t Russia just impose sanctions on them? That would have surely solved the problem? How many U.N. resolutions did they go through? What kind of global coalition did they gather up?

[redgolum]

Nuts.

This is going to get very ugly. God help us.

[mbraynard]

Here's a thought: NATO has promised Georgia membership and is (or maybe now, was) expected to join in 2009. Georgia has EAGERLY wanted membership for years.

What this means is that this recent attack by Russia would have been considered an attack on ALL NATO states and would effectively put the US/UK/Germany/France/Italy at war (finally) with Russia.

[flyfree]

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia:
Security Issues and Implications for U.S. Interests
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/102644.pdf

[Proud_USA_Republican]

FoxNews Update - A Georgian interior ministry spokesman said three Georgian soldiers were killed Friday in a bombing on the Vaziani airbase.

Georgia’s Foreign Ministry said that a Russian raid Friday on the Marneuli air base destroyed several Georgian military aircraft and inflicted unspecified casualties. It said that Russian aircraft also bombed another base in Bolnisi. Rustavi 2 television reported four people were killed and five others wounded at the Marneuli air base.

A senior Russian diplomat in charge of the South Ossetian conflict, Yuri Popov, dismissed the Georgian claims of Russian bombings as misinformation, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow was receiving reports that villages in South Ossetia were being ethnically cleansed.

“We are receiving reports that a policy of ethnic cleansing was being conducted in villages in South Ossetia, the number of refugees is climbing, the panic is growing, people are trying to save their lives,” he said during televised remarks in Moscow from Russia’s Foreign Ministry.

[Kimberly GG]

I believe it was (gag me) Geraldo on Fox who said the similarities are likened to the beginning of WWII?

I am not knowledgeable AT ALL about Russia or previous wars for that matter. How concerned should I be?

[khnyny]

Take a look at the following book posted on the web. It’s called “The Grand Chessboard”. It’s in PDF format. Do a search on the word “Georgia”.

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119973.pdf