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Saakashvili has written one check too many that bounced big and he certainly does not have lilly-white hands. Mikheil’s a young “turk” (by nature and idiom, not birth or culture) and has given Tsar P license to hunt. Admittedly, P was ready, willing, able and significantly pre-staged. Have a nice Olympics, looking into P’s soul, W. More than one icy stare and cold shoulder were at the hockey play-offs. Even the beach-bims got chilly.

Meanwhile, back at the mishmash Balkans, there are so many minority minorities and majority minorities, it’s an Olympian effort to keep score on the clusterf underway. I’m always happy to see something nice like the USS Dallas stop by and say hello, while delivering supplies of various sorts.

Admittedly, the earlier annexing of Abkhazia by the Rus set the sequence of events in play, just as night follows day.

P is a big game-theory guy; but all games necessarily include implicit presumptions, which may be wrongly assumed by either player. For instance, Dear Sarahcudda is a game changer, not unlike adding an extra White Queen to the chessboard. Not easily forecast, the game has radically changed; perhaps Biden looks now a wasted choice, if winning was the only goal. [Perhaps Joe the Mouth will now get “Torched”, like Torricelli’s forced switcheroo for Frank “ADP” Lautenberg in NJ.]

But, P has invaded to protect “Russian Citizens”, who carry recently gift-wrapped fast-food papers from the local Russian “Cultural Exchange Centers”. Didn’t Hitler “peacefully” invade the Germanic Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in 1938 to “protect their sovereignty and historical Germanic dignity”? At least they were “Germanic” of sorts.

The history of several hundreds+ of years of various wars in the region is far beyond my pay grade (although I am more certain about when human life begins than some other folks).

NB: To say that the War of Succession or the War of Northern Aggression was not ALSO about slavery flies in the face of reality, not just Yankee over-statement. Lincoln, “our” President, said he wanted to preserve the union at any cost of life or treasure. Before the war began and just after the beginning he made it quite clear that anti-slavery was NOT his purpose. He said if allowing slavery would save the Union he would be for it and that if eliminating slavery would save the union, he would be for that. He wanted to save the Union. Subsequent events provided the latter.

After all, if eliminating slavery was the only Linconian objective, why did he only "free" the slaves in the Confederate States and Territories and not include the North? Were Northern Slaves any less deserving of their freedom?

Clearly, the Declaration provided that we could declare our independence from England’s yoke. Our capacity to make that Declaration stick was our own un-guaranteed responsibility. Events could have turned out not unlike the latter Confederation’s failed attempt to susceed.

But, please let us make no mistake failing to see the slavery in the Soviet State’s ambitions in all of the extra-Rus Soviets. The Soviets were squeezed of their gold, ideas and women, all of which went to Moscow. The invasion of Russian families into the properties of each captured state ensured the “proper” weight of any votes (see Islamic invasion of Europe and Hispanic invasion of North America), along with wholesale voter fraud (see New Jersey).

On topic, i wish our brilliant investor class would expand into the new european states with more gusto. The cheap slave-like labor of China is a sucker's choice in the end.

Kudos to the K-Boys for reaching out to the Polish Democracy.