[SolidWood]

Who would have guessed?/sarc

In othe... *cough* older news Herr Hitler promises to protect the rights of Germans in Czechoslovakia and Poland.

[nathanbedford]

Moscow boosted ties with the separatist government - and with a similar regime in Georgia's other separatist region, Abkhazia - and repeatedly denounced Saakashvili's push to join NATO.

While Moscow was "boosting ties" with the separatist governments were they also assuring them that Russia would invade if they could provoke a battle and thus provide the pretext for the re-annexation of the whole of Georgia?

The quote above, incidentally, appeared in the penultimate paragraph of the article, I wonder why the speculation was offered so belatedly?