Superpower Swoop
What Russia and America are really doing in Georgia and who set the trap? Vladimir Putin and his thuggish FSB pals or Dick Cheney and his equally unflappable neocon friends?
by Misha Glenny
Georgia’s decision to seize large parts of Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, on the evening of 7 August was a disastrous political miscalculation, even in an era that is increasingly defined by spectacularly poor judgement.
Within three days of the assault, Russian forces had responded by in effect neutralising Georgia’s military capacity, which President Mikhail Saakashvili’s government in Tbilisi had spent several years and considerable sums of money building up..........
ENTIRE ARTICLE- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/16/11026/
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