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Tbilisi Georgia

August 12, 2008

If it wasn’t apparent what Russia was up to last week, you’ve got to be in denial today if you don’t think Putin’s plans are anything but taking over ALL of Georgia. Moving into South Ossetia last week under the guise of protecting their peace keepers was just the opening gambit. Over the wekend, Russian troops entered from the West, sending armored vehicles beyond two breakaway provinces and seizing a military base in the country’s west.

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Russia captured the central city of Gori and its armored vehicles rolled deep into western Georgia on Monday, seizing a military base and several towns and opening a second front of fighting. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said the Russian forces had effectively cut his country in half. And now it’s on to the capitol of Georgia, TBILISI!

Can the under matched smaller military and diplomatic relations top the onslaught?

The invasions of three western towns and Gori, which sits on Georgia’s only east-west highway, came despite a top Russian general’s claim earlier Monday that Russia had no plans to enter Georgian territory. Yeah, right! Security Council head Alexander Lomaia said Monday it was not immediately clear if Russian forces would advance on Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. The U.N. Security Council called an emergency session at Georgia’s request—the fifth meeting on the subject in as many days.

The war is not limited to the terra firma either! It’s a cyber-war as well.

The websites of Georgia’s government have been under denial-of-service attacks for weeks, with Russian hackers fingered as the culprits. Those online assaults have only intensified in recent days, as a shooting war between the two countries has broken out. The original servers located in the country of Georgia were “flooded and blocked by Russians” over the weekend, Nino Doijashvili, chief executive of Atlanta-based hosting company Tulip Systems Inc., said Monday.

The Georgian-born Doijashvili happened to be on vacation in Georgia when fighting broke out on Friday. She cold-called the government to offer her help and transferred president.gov.ge and rustavi2.com, the Web site of a prominent Georgian TV station, to her company’s servers Saturday.

Listen, there’s nothing that’s going to stop Putin from taking over Georgia. He may not take the fighting to the capitol because of the intense resistence he’d find there, but I wouldn’t even put that past him. It’s game on and Georgia is not going to be a part of NATO, because there will be no Georgia- if Putin has his way.

And, so far he has.

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary 

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