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«Russia is no longer the spineless giant of the Nineties: Vladimir Putin's musclebound, oil-fuelled authoritarian regime has aggressively reinvigorated Russia. He had already shown his ruthless determination to master the Caucasus by crushing Chechnya. Nato in Georgia would have made that meaningless. The Kremlin has used its clients, Abkhazia and Ossetia, as Trojan Horses to ruin Tbilisi's independence - recently raising the tension by offering Russian passports to all Ossetians and testing Georgian resolve with cross-border skirmishing: the trap of a practised imperial power.

Georgia is not guiltless: most Georgians I know care little about Ossetia even though it is part of sovereign Georgia. But in order to join Nato, President Saakashvili wanted to settle Georgia's instability by reclaiming Ossetia and Abkhazia. By seizing Tskhinvali, he took one hell of a gamble that Russia wouldn't intervene. Georgia is paying a high price for this. To finish this vicious circle, Russian attacks show how badly Georgia needs EU/Nato protection, yet Georgia will never get it while embroiled in fighting.

The retaking of Ossetia is a minor part of the Russian campaign. More significant is the attack on Georgia proper, which reasserts Russia's hegemony over the Caucasus, assuages the humiliations of the past 20 years, subverts Georgian democracy - and defies and defangs American superpowerdom. The swaggering arrival of Vladimir Putin, now the Prime Minister, across the border, macho in his tight jeans and white leather jacket, shows he, not President Medvedev, remains Russia's paramount leader.»

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Грузия вышла из СНГ, плюс де факто потеряла ЮО и Абхазию. Остается раздать российские паспорта еще и в Абхазии, и возрадоваться очередному притоку "черножопых" в славянские объятия. Небольшая шизофрения, но все уже привыкли.

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Тем временем осетины и российцы продолжают хозяйничать в Грузии, несмотря не официальные заявления о прекращении военных действий:

Timeline
12 August

01:45 Russian aviation bombed Agara, dropping two bombs.
02:00 Two explosions in Kaspi, where Russian planes dropped two bombs near Kaspi cement factory and near bridge at the center of the city.
10:01 Villages Tkviavi and Berbuki in Gori region were bombed.
11:15 Russian bombers dropped bombes in the center of Gori, damaging Post office, University and apartment buildings.
11.32 Russian aviation bombed territory of Khashuri electric power plant and military vehicle on the road of Ruisi.
11:32 A highway towards East in the center of Khashuri was blocked.
12:03 Russian aviation bombed southern entrance of Rikoti tunnel.
13:00 On Vaziani airport, in Tbilisi, previously dropped bombs have exploded.
13:06 Russian aviation dropped bomb again near Rikoti tunnel, at village Chumateleti.
13:30 Russian aviation dropped bomb in Agara.
14:15 Russian helicopters approached Igoeti and dropped thermal flares causing fire.
14:20 A bomb was dropped in the house of Mamikashvili, inhabitant of village Tortiza, Gori region.
15:20 A bomb was dropped near Ruisi highway, but has not exploded.
15:30 A minivan near village Ortasheni was bombed causing death of civilians.
15:30 100 units of heavy armored vehicles, tanks, BTRs are moving near village jvari, in Samegrelo.
16:20 In village Karaleti, Gori region, Russian and Ossetian armed groups are terrorizing local population and robbing them.