I’ve been giving it a great deal of thought lately, as much as someone half way around the world can that hasn’t been directly affected by the conflict – how best to frame the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In the end I began to look at the situation from various aspects that, until [...]

This is the sort of nonsense that occurs when powers greater than yourself are lurking in your background… “President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia said Sunday that he planned to rebuild his country’s shattered army, and that even after its decisive defeat in the war for control of one of Georgia’s two separatist enclaves he would continue [...]

Two outcomes seem very likely because of the recent Russian incursion into Georgia. The first is that Georgia’s membership in NATO will very probably be fast tracked. The second is the greater promotion of the US backed Eastern European missile defense shield. A very interesting statement was recently made by Rep. Mark Kirk (Republican, Illinois), [...]

US humanitarian aid has arrived in war-torn Georgia (despite the fact that the majority of the damage and carnage was in South Ossetia) via the USS McFaul. There’s nothing better for transporting humanitarian relief than an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. As we’re all acutely aware, that’s one of their primary functions. What is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer [...]

In 2003 the United States invaded Iraq. The Bush Administration employed blatant falsehoods regarding Iraq’s WMD program and links between the regime of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, the latter of which is still believed by a great many Americans (there is ample television footage of almost every senior member of the administration employing outright falsehoods [...]

It wasn’t too long ago that Polish public opinion was decidedly against the country’s support of America’s BMD initiative. Recent events in Georgia have altered that position dramatically. Such an occurrence should come as no surprise. If one thing has succeeded brilliantly in the aftermath of the Georgian assault on South Ossetia and Russia’s [...]

While there are those that believe that the administration of Ronald Reagan was responsible for ending the Cold War, I, along with many others, have long held that the actions of Mikhail Gorbachev played a far greater role. In fact, it could even be argued that Gorbachev was the chief architect of the collapse of [...]

The United States has shown up. That would probably be the reason why the Georgian government, according to the BBC, is adamant that included in the terms of any ceasefire reached with the Russians that “it will not accept any loss of its territory”. That’s a rather interesting assertion given that it was the government of [...]

If you can believe it, the following escaped the mouth of President Bush today… “In a statement at the White House, President George W Bush accused Russia of “bullying and intimidation”, saying it was an unacceptable “way to conduct foreign policy in the 21st Century”.” An unacceptable way of conducting foreign policy? Am I drunk? Is he [...]

So the Poles have signed on to the American backed Eastern European BMD initiative. My, what a regional conflict won’t do to bring home the bacon. In exchange for opening the door to the US and allowing 10 interceptor missiles to be based at a facility on the Baltic, the Poles will get US assistance [...]