Dear Western Powers

Dear Western Powers,

Wow. I want to take this opportunity to really hand it to you. You've taken the last twenty years of development and in just under a year have managed to throw it down the drain.

Never before has Western society been in such a predicament like we are today. Georgia is being invaded by a Putin (read: KGB) led Russia, oil prices are still high and any response by Europe will result in Putin turning off the gas valves this winter.

Great.

Then recently European investors have invested billions of Euros in Russia. I want to know who thought this was a good idea. How many Bulga Caviar farms do we need? You can trust the Russians about as much as you can trust the Big Bad Wolf. We've done it to ourselves. We've outsourced our economies, we've allowed Russia to take stock in our natural gas reserves and now our economies are under threat of recession and inflation.

So EU, NATO and US...what are you going to do? Tell Russia no?

Waiting for your reply,
Every concerned citizen, everywhere.

Silly Russians

The Russians are going to roll their tanks right into Europe.

I can see it now. Putin is what we refer to as a 'strongman" His considerable deft in International Relations is no mistake. Not to mention, he's just ballsy.Vlad is using the timing perfectly, with a US engaged in military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan and needing support from Russian on the Iran Nuclear issue, there is no global police ready to spring board to the Georgian's safety. Unfortunately for the Georgian's they are going to have to figure this one out for themselves.

I'm not surprised that Putin rolled his troops into Georgia. Georgia is one of the few former Soviet Bloc countries that had the wherewithal to be a leader in economics and democratic change after the fall of the Wall. Not to mention its pro-Western (read: American) government has been a huge supporter of the US in its Middle East efforts. As an reward, Georgia received military training and arms from the US. Let's hope they put some of them to use now.

Putin is a crazy sob.