Breaking News from AP.
Great!
Did we threaten to nuke them?
What’s up?
The demand the resignation of Saakashvili and intend to annex Ossetia and Abkhazia.
It sounds like SOMEBODY got through to them on the backchannel and told them, “You REALLY don’t want to risk all-out war with certain allies of Georgia, do you?”.
Sounds like folks are working hard behind the scenes. We will probably never learn what was really agreed to.
I hope this development is true because I’ve been tossing and turning at night for the past 2 days over this...
We have friends in Germany that were telling us the same thing yesterday about 1800. I will believe it when it actually happens.
/bkmark
Sarkozy is on his way to Moscow. Russia has no intention of leaving two provinces and says the Georgian president must go.
Not sure how long a ceasefire will last under those conditions.
Yeah, like the Russians can be trusted......
Hmmm...this news doesn’t have seem to made it to the Russian news, yet.
http://pravda.ru
http://english.pravda.ru/
Quote - Summary Snippet:
GMT, August 12, 2008
09:31 Explosions near Tbilisi unrelated to air strikes - Georgian Interior Ministry
09:30 Russian military will continue reconnaissance operations in Georgia after ceasefire - General Staff
09:29 Medvedev: I have decided to cease operations to force peace in S.Ossetia (Part 2)
CNN now calling it:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/12/georgia.russia.war/index.html
Contrary to what Putin had expected, oil prices continued to fall. Maybe it wasn’t worth the expense of waging war with oil prices going down instead of up.
This means that we stood up enough to them to make them take pause. The planned travel of those 5 Presidents from ex-communist states probably helped quite a bit. Now, how long will the bear pause ?
Thank God! But I can’t believe it could be this easy. Perhaps Russia got more than they bargained for from Europe. I’m sure there’s a lot of pressure behind the scenes. President Bush is so calm and understated. I hope Russia is going to be “punished” financially much more than they have “punished” Georgia. This is much scarier than Iran. Praying they pull out quickly, nobody even thinks about letting them keep any territory, and ships full of aide with “U.S. Govt” stamped all over it arrive quickly.
Medvedev and Sarko are holding a press conference live on the RT feed.....
The price of freedom can never be set too high.
19 minutes ago
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian president: Georgia must pull troops from breakaway regions, pledge to end use of force.