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The Georgia-Brazil power axis
An angry Russian beach volleyball player has refused to acknowledge losing to Georgia, claiming her rivals were really Brazilians in disguise. (How do you disguise a Brazilian volleyball player as a Georgian volleyball player?) Maybe Georgia should have spent more time recruiting Brazilian soldiers rather than volleyball players? Or better still spent more time playing volleyball and [...] read moreAugust 14, 2008 11:43 am - 5 Comments -
95km
I obviously haven’t been paying close enough attention. I just found out the distance from Ergneti in South Ossetia to the Georgian capital Tbilisi is about 95 kms. That’s like a war between Hamilton and Auckland with Pukekohe trying to breakaway from the northern Bombayians to join the Waikato. (South Ossetia has a slightly smaller [...] read moreAugust 12, 2008 4:55 pm - 17 Comments -
South Ossetia
You have to wonder who Georgia’s Mikheil Saakashvili had in his ear to think that attacking the separatists in South Ossetia was going to work. Maybe he mistakenly thought the support he got from the US in recent years was cavalry rather than show ponies? Maybe he though that nearly belonging to NATO was close [...] read moreAugust 11, 2008 8:48 am - 4 Comments
