Daily Meh is an edited stream of consciousness, by Simen.

South Ossetia, The War of My Dreams

The War Nerd comments, and asks questions such as: there’s essentially one road from South Ossetia to Russia, and it goes through a tunnel; why didn’t the Georgian army attack it? (Answer: they didn’t think Russia would react.) On the international significance:

The fretting and fussing and sky-is-falling crap about this war is going to die down fast, and the bottom line will be simple: the Georgians overplayed their hand and got slapped, and we caught a little of the follow-through, which is what happens when you waste your best troops—and Georgia’s, for that matter—on a dumb war in the wrong place. We detatched Kosovo from a Russian ally; they detached South Ossetia from an American ally. It’s a pawn exchange, if that. If it signals anything bigger, it’s the fact that the US is weaker than it was ten years ago and Russia is much, much stronger than it was in Yeltsin’s time. But anybody with sense knew all that already.