Russia v. Georgia

[A Black Falcon]

OH, a different Georgia. Wow did I have the wrong idea. You did that on purpose!

Partially. :) It's been top headline news for several days now, though...

The country is called Georgia, though. It's just a coincidence, the US state is named in honor of King George...

Moscow is trying to break any nation that doesn't give it submission, Its all over oil pipelines.

Most certainly true. Russia has been trying hard to beat all of the former Soviet countries they can get their hands on into submission... the Baltic states, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic and Slovakia are out of reach, but not the states in the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), and not Belarus and the Ukraine. Ukraine and Georgia are the particular targets of Russia's wrath, for wanting to become more like the West...

Russia is arming and training separatists and are trying to provoke Georgia into starting a blood feud amongst the ethnic groups in order to break up Georgia Using south Ossetia,Abkhazia, Even Armenian communities.

If you read the article I linked, it says how the Russian army is driving into Georgia, attacking the Georgian army within the country -- not just in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. They're trying to destroy it and destabilize the country, it seems... and yeah, breaking it up does seem like a plausible followup to that, if we don't somehow calm down the situation.

The new Russia is a Byzantine operation, Trying to build its power off Oil and energy.

It's getting back to Russia's roots, really... the Russian and Soviet Empires were very powerful. Russia couldn't stand a lesser position in the world for long.