When 52% of the electorate vote for a man who is a wet towel on the foreign policy stage
Russia has stationed forces 25 miles from Tbilisi, the Georgia capitol and has dramatically increased its troop strength in the Russian-dominated breakaway Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The moves, reported in the English language Ukranian newspaper, the Kyiv Post, may signal a new military gambit by Russia to put pressure on Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in advance of expected mass protests in the capital that will call on him to resign.
Russia has said relations cannot be repaired until Saakashvili is gone.
The stationing of Russian troops just a stone’s throw from the Georgian capitol is in direct violation of the EU sponsored cease fire that was put in place following the conflict between the two nations. While the EU continues to complain about the violations, Russia says that it has signed agreements with both South Ossetia and Abkhazia that supercede the cease fire – not a bad trick when you consider how utterly the Russians dominate those two provinces.
I know that Saakashvili is looking to America for help. Sadly, no one in the White House is interested in answering the phone. It is more important to them that they get some socialized medicine and taxing of the rich passed first.