[Southack]

"My feeling is that they are trying to provoke the Georgians into attacking them so they can call Russian heavy forces down on the Georgians again."

Yup. Bait.

[Captain Rhino]

You know, there were a series of provocative attacks against Georgian forces inside South Ossetia in August immediately PRIOR to the 7 August Georgian attack.

I wonder if Russian paratroops had any part in those attacks? Are they Russian paratroops or just other Russians dressed to look like them? Hmmm....