Of Georgia, Jamtland and the Texas Solution
Thomas Goltz, special to the Pulitzer Center
(Thomas Goltz is an adjunct professor of Political Science at Montana State University, Bozeman, and author among other books of Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of Political Chaos and War in the Post-Soviet Caucasus, M.E. Sharpe, 2006, soon to be re-issued in paperback with a new Epilogue.)
Tbilisi/Baku, August 28, 2008
Well, it seems to be over, surprise, surprise, unless it turns into WW III, which I hope it does not.
The Caucasus War of 8.8.8 that is, the two-week (or two day) hurly
burly in the mountainous southwest corner of the defunct Soviet Union
that was a national debacle for West-obsessed Georgia and a crushing
victory for a resurgent Russia.
For those of you who chose
to watch the Beijing Olympics instead, which seemed to be timed almost
purposely to create maximum distraction from the seismic events
happening in the place that gave rise to the legend of Pandora's Box
getting re-opened, geo-politically speaking, let me fill you in on a
fistful of details.
Articles and other resources from the Pulitzer Center's Caucasus conflicts project.
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