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"Real" reason for Russian invasion

My friend Mr. Cheek is wagging his tongue again. He objects to my geopolitical explanation of the Russian invasion of Georgia.

"Come on", he says, "you always overcomplicate things. Geopolitics, phooeypolitics! This incursion is just a distraction from their real intentions. Did you not see that Russia was eighth place in the Olympic medals standing when they started this war?? That was a disgrace and something had to be done. If the athletes could not perform, the military could not stand idly by and watch the country be disgraced. So they drew from the lesson of US invasion of Granada nearly 25 years ago(pick the smallest, closest possible country)and achieved a quick, can I say 'shock and awe', victory. The proof of my theory is that since then they have risen rapidly in the standings, passing Japan, South Korea, Australia, Germany and finally today have passed the Great Britain. Only the USA and China stand in the way to their achiving total victory. Now if only they could find another small, nearby country to invade. Hmmmm."

Ok, Mr. Cheek, forget it, they already invaded Lithuania in 1991, and the Lithuanians won without firing a shot. That was really the Georgians mistake. They followed the Bush-Cheney doctrine instead of Ghandi tactics.

posted by econtalk @ 12:43 AM