August 15, 2008

A War that Never Started, that Never Ended

The conventional wisdom is that Georgia kicked off the war on August 8th, launching an offensive into South Ossetia in retaliation for the violent rebuke of its unilateral cease fire from South Ossetian militias (backed by Russians) on ethnic Georgian villages near the border.
The Georgians pounded South Ossetian positions and quite nearly took the whole [...]