While Russian forces invade Georgia...

[fpb]

...the silver and bronze medallists of one of the Olympic gun competitions not only shook hands, but hugged and did everything in their power to demonstrate the deepest love for each other. The silver medalist was Russian, the bronze Georgian. The BBC commentators were all over this like white on rice, calling it a wonderful display of the power of sports to bring people together.

I find it revolting.

The proper word for it is collaborationist. It is, traitorous. It is, quisling. Sorry, but if your troops have just invaded my country and killed hundreds if not thousands of my people, I will NOT shake your hand and I will NOT act as your friend. There are too many dead between us. I hope the Georgian woman is chased out of her country by popular rage.

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[expectare.livejournal.com]

One day Georgia and Russia will patch their differences up

yeah, with Georgia being integrated into the Russian Empire.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

This time they might find it harder. The world is no longer what it was when America and Russia carved up the globe, nor when the Tzar deceived the last King of Georgia into letting his country be swallowed up by Russia and turned into an ordinary Russian governatorate.

[expectare.livejournal.com]

I hope so. What do you think will be the outcome?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Impossible to tell. The slightly likeliest one, by a short head, is a weakened Georgian government, formally independent but run on strings from Moscow and deprived of Ossetia and Abkhazia.