Tag Archives: georgia

Izvestia claims the U.S. planned attack against Iran

More than a thousand heavy U.S. battle tanks and other armor unloaded in Kandahar. Why? For any Middle Easterner, these tanks mean only one thing: trouble.
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The heroes of the New Cold War (and what idiots they are)

Poker-faced Soviet villains had hot side-kicks. Hollywood loved them.
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The War: diary from Georgia

‘There is war in Samachablo (Georgian name for the region known as South Ossetia)’ they tell me. I wave off the hint of alarm in my thoughts with ‘oh, can’t be more than some borderline skirmish...'
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Russia and Georgia: darkness falls

Political elites benefit from grand-standing, regular people just lose their limbs in the process.
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