Russia has it's own definition of withdraw from Georgia, and has gone as far as making threats of going 'beyond diplomacy' over Poland. Russia is also talking about exiting NATO.
Michael Totten has a close up of how things look for the Georgians.
On Monday, I visited one of the schools transformed into refugee
housing in the center of Tbilisi and spoke to four women—Lia, Nana,
Diana, and Maya—who had fled with their children from a cluster of
small villages just outside the city of Gori. “We left the cattle,” Lia
said. “We left the house. We left everything and came on foot because
to stay there was impossible.” Diana’s account: “They are burning the
houses. From most of the houses they are taking everything. They are
stealing everything, even such things as toothbrushes and toilets. They
are taking the toilets. Imagine. They are taking broken refrigerators.”
And Nana: “We are so heartbroken. I don’t know what to say or even
think. Our whole lives we were working to save something, and one day
we lost everything. Now I have to start everything from the very
beginning.” Read it all.
World renown scholar of Russian politics Edward Lucas delivers a ground breaking speech about current situation in Russia and its relations with NATO, Georgia, and the Baltic States.
