[Moonbiter]

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Originally Posted by Xandax Seems Russia will keep the occupation of Poti up, an (thee?) important harbour city of Georgia.

Yes. The interesting thing is that when they went into Poti, they confiscated about a dozen American military vehicles. Not Georgian, American. These were apparently awaiting shipment out of Georgia, after having been used in "training exercises." Nothing major, though. Some four Hummers and some trucks, the point is this: What the hell is the US military doing having "exercises" in Georgia? What sort of message does that send? I was an army-man for a long time, and I can't for the life of me remember when a non-NATO nation agreed to let the US practice warfare in their yard, especially on the border to Russia.

I stopped caring about this conflict a week ago, when the tabloid newspapers, using Georgian journalists as a source, showed pictures of "Russian tanks rampaging through Dusheti..." and showed Yank-produced M109 self-propelled artillery. The day the Russians use Yank 155mm howitzers is the day purple pigs wearing pink tutus fly kites out of King Harald's butt. On American Idol!

I'm too old for this. It's turned into a propaganda war, and people around me are losing the plot because of our built-in animosity towards Russia. Hell, I was born and raised with it! It's damn hard to get rid of. Like I said in my initial post, South Ossetia (and Abkhasia) are just mindless chumps with a fashionable "independence-fetish" with no plan and no future, except as tools for two schoolyard bullies marking their territory. This is not the beginning of the Third World War, it's a continuation of a war that's been going on since 1944, when the race towards Berlin started. The sad thing is that there's always a group of have-nots out there that will make a deal with the bully: "I will give you independence, feed you, clothe you, give you internet porn and make you happy if you take this assault rifle and rocket launcher and kill that other guy for me. Deal?"