War breaks out in the CaucasusAnd you thought WWIII (or, IV depending on who's counting) would be started by the Islamists.
Russian troops and fighter jets moved into South Ossetia today in response to the Georgian Army’s offensive against Ossetian separatists today. Georgia claims to have shot down two Russian jets, and Russia accused Georgia of a “dirty adventure”. The hostilities broke out after years of tensions between the two nations over a pair of breakaway provinces still in dispute almost 20 years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union:
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Heh. Great minds think alike and post simultaneously.
I at least sign my work...
Bruce Ivins wasn't me. I think somebody else claimed that in email
Now reporting that they will bring the brigade home from iraq on Saturday. Nice invite to Russian Air Force for a strike.
Georgia has about 5 bns. of US trained and combat tested troops from Iraq already at home. Don't know what their counter-armor training has been. OTOH, not a nice place to fight an armor war.