The US is holding joint-military exercises with Georgia all throughout the month of July.
Stand up to Russia over Georgia
If proof were needed of the significance of the crisis facing the troubled Caucasus state of Georgia, it came yesterday with the start of exercises involving 1,000 US troops.
US officials insist the long-planned wargames have nothing to do with the recent dispute between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But they give Washington a chance to support pro-west Tbilisi at a critical time.
And some more fightin' words.
Georgia leader Mikhail Saakashvili: Russia is a menace to peace
The West must confront Russia to prevent another conflict from breaking out in the Caucasus, the President of Georgia has told The Times.
Mikhail Saakashvili said that elements in Russia were intent on provoking trouble in Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and compared Europe’s response to the failures of appeasement in the 1930s.
This has been an interesting conflict to follow, and to me it always seems like the situation there continues to deteriorate.
You can follow the past and most recent events in this thread:
Abkhaz Leader Has Ordered Army To Sink Any Georgian Ships In Its Waters (by Hellmutt)
www.timesonline.co.uk
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