[Prophet in the wilderness]

" They can't even resort to the time honored tactic of butchering the local population of Ossetia and Abkhazia, since these are now "Russian citizens," having been granted passports by the Russian government (thereby doing Hitler one better: there actually were Germans in the Sudetenland, but Putin had to invent his downtrodden "Russian" minority in Georgia). "

What makes us think that Putin would not kill his own citizens than Saddam Hussein killing his own citizens ?

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Of course Putin would and does kill his own citizens...you are right. Can we say “Gulag”?