Protests in Armenia

[dead0man]

Thankfully Armenia does not share a border with Russia. At least for now.

It's just Georgia, we've* already shown we don't care about them once.  Would it really surprise anybody if Putin uses Armenian issues as an excuse to invade?

Putin, "they would not let me roll the 58th through Tbilisi, what choice did I have?"



*to be clear to ag, "we" means the west in general, not me and the mouse I keep in my pocket.

[dead0man]

It's Putin, it doesn't have to make sense.  The Russian people will eat up whatever spin comes out of the state's media, the west will wring it's hands and maybe go for some more sanctions.

I'm not saying all this is going to happen, odds would be against it I would imagine, but it's certainly more likely than, say, Dubya Obama invading Iran Syria so he has an excuse to stay in office longer.



(on the other hand, I seem to recall we've beefed up Georgia a bit since 8/8/08.  Likely not enough, but perhaps enough to give Putin pause.)