McCain campaigned hard against Russia following the Georgia conflict this summer, so its no shock this information comes out after the election: Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist […]
That’s not what I am saying, but rather what Putin is saying: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Matthew Chance in the Black Sea city of Sochi Thursday, Putin said the […]
The people in Georgia wonder why the U.S. and NATO isn’t there helping them fight Russia: As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won’t America and Nato help us? If they won’t help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?” A similar sense […]