08.21.2008 11:23 am

At stake: A country’s right to choose its alliances

Does anything short of military action against Russia amount to appeasement? Does Georgia deserve help since Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili triggered the conflict by moving troops into the province under dispute? In an oped in the International Herald Tribune, Salome…

Tags: Eastern Europe, Georgia, military, Russia

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08.12.2008 11:42 am

Russia’s victory in Georgia all but complete

By Alex Mayer

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

However it may dismay Americans to watch Russian tanks rolling over a tiny, democratic U.S. ally, you have to hand it to Putin — the invasion of Georgia was nothing short of brilliant.

The groundwork for this invasion was meticulously laid…

Tags: Dmitri Medvedev, Eastern Europe, Energy, European Union, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Mikheil Saakashvili, NATO, Russia, Vladimir Putin, war

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At stake: A country’s right to choose its alliances

Russia’s victory in Georgia all but complete

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