Either Medvedev is being disengenuous, or he doesn’t have full control of his military.
Even Condi and Sarko must be beginning to suspect that they’ve been flim-flammed....
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promised to pull almost all troops from Georgia by the weekend, but there was no immediate sign of movement yesterday.
Oh that’s ok Misha, because much of the world is making fun of Russia right now.
Can't disagree with him on that at all. The Russians are playing the West for cowards and fools. They must be laughing their rear ends off at us as they continue to make promises, then openly defy the promises they make, then make new promises, then defy them, and then repeat that cycle endlessly. They are using the West's desire to avoid conflict at all costs to show what paper tigers we really are, and they're doing it in a most humiliating way.
It's embarrassing.
Using the common vernacular, I’d call this stage of negotations “strip poker” or even truth/dare.