The Russians have been playing large scale war games in the area. I'm sure we and the Georgian President knew it. Why he picked this time to try and reclaim that city is a mystery to me. It may have been a fatal mistake for his country.
“Why he picked this time to try and reclaim that city is a mystery to me.”
Recent moves by S. Ossetia’s Russian Mobster-run leaders forced his hand, I think...
And the feeling they had to close the Roki Tunnel (THE major Strategic Chokepoint of the area) before the Russians made thier move.