[ex-Texan]

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[TLI]

On the edge of the strategically important city of Gori, Georgian soldiers pointed their weapons at Russian forces, and explosions and small arms fire broke out in the distance.

Georgia claimed Russians had left the oil port city of Poti, but hours later some forces were still there.

The U.S. said a move toward Kutaisi would be a matter of great concern, but two defense officials told The Associated Press the Pentagon did not detect any major movement by Russia troops or tanks.

In a way this makes no sense as Kutaisi is mid-way between Gori and Poti (east - west line) which implies they are already there (Kutaisi). If the presence is small enough it is of no concern. A major push to the southwest, well that would be another story.

Cutting the route by blowing the bridge at Gori does imply they are going to keep the S.O. region with some buffer zone. I wonder what the lines look like on the east side, from Mtskheta to Dusheti and north?

[M. Espinola]

If the Russian barbarian invader is not thrown back from Georgia, (some 500 miles) where? Armenia, The Ukraine, Poland, Romania, or will the West wait until Putin's oil-rich invaders are storming toward the Atlantic?

Putin's Russian butcher Borisov, in the Caucasus

Local residents meet Major-General Vyacheslav Borisov, deputy commander of Russia's paratroopers and in command of the Gori region, as Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's statue is seen in the background, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 16, 2008. Russian forces in the occupied town of Gori in Georgia said on Saturday they had not received any order to pull out, but Reuters witnessed a visible drawdown in the military presence. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA)