Russia is asking for trouble in Georgia

Financial Times ^ | Eight-Eight-Eight | Staff

[Jack Black]

Tumbledice you wrote: However, as a postscript, I might—I say, I say—I might just be willin’ to roll the dice on a `War between the States’ II/Redux. Why, this whole federalism (snort!) rigamorole has gotten entirely—I say, suh—entirely out of hand! Fie and fiddlesticks! So as far as sabre-rattlin’ goes, why—look at me when I’m talkin’ to ya boy, there you go—ah say, why go all the way `round the world when this heah might be as good a place as any to start a-warrin’ and such. . .

This requires a CW II Ping. Here it is.

[Jack Black]

What would we do if all the freakin illegal MExicans rose up and wanted to form a break-away country in the Southwest U.S. I would hope that the memories of one of my favorite Presidents would be invoked - that of President James K. Polk. Nothing. We have no ideology that allows us to resist them. Russia and Georgia have nationalism. We have only "Democracy". If a minority becomes a majority in any place they can change the local language to Spanish, run the government in it, school the kids in it, and re-do the state flag to be red, green and white. "It is the will of the people". This is already starting to happen in some border cities in the USA. It will accelerate.

Were we ever to attempt to restore American law in such an autonomous enclave we will be treated as invaders and beligerants by the world.

[dfwgator]

This might be about having 57 declension cases instead of six...

That's one for each state in the US. ;)

[iopscusa]

Payback for US (BJC & GWB) stupidity attacking Serbia and carving out Kosovo for no good reason!

[BnBlFlag]

“It is an ethnic patchwork of mountain villages, part-Ossetian and part-Georgian, with just 70,000 inhabitants, divided between pro-Russian and pro-Georgian administrations, and lacking any common identity.”

Very similiar to what these United States are becoming in many ways.

[ctdonath2]

I might just be willin’ to roll the dice

Having just had a pat on the back by a guy with a hood & a scythe, let me quote an Ent: let us not be hasty.

[dennisw]

Putin is as bad as the Muslims .....in some respects