Russia seizes South Ossetia<\/a><\/p>\nRussian troops backed by tanks and fighter jets seized control of South Ossetia on Sunday as fears grew of a wider conflict with Georgia over the separatist region.<\/p>\n
Georgia said it had withdrawn most of its troops from South Ossetia in the face of a build-up in Russian firepower and that it had lost control of the near-destroyed regional capital, Tskhinvali.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
“We’re being driven away. The place was in flames and we couldn’t stay,” Pavlik, an elderly man travelling by foot, told AFP as he fled from the conflict zone.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
Russia backs the separatist government in South Ossetia and sent in tanks and troops on Friday in response to pro-Western Georgia’s military offensive to take back the province which broke away in the early 1990s after a separatist war.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
“We have left practically all of South Ossetia as an expression of goodwill and our willingness to stop military confrontation,” Georgian National Security Council Secretary Alexander Lomaia told AFP.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
The movement of Russia’s naval fleet from their base in Ukraine to positions near Georgia also threatened to destabilise the region.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s foreign ministry threatened to prevent the warships from returning to their base in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol. <\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
Georgia’s army of less than 25,000 men is confronting a Russian force which can count on more than one million troops and has dominance of both skies and sea.<\/p>\n
On the diplomatic front, a meeting of the UN Security Council on Saturday failed to agree on a call for an immediate ceasefire.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
Russia on the move. Imagine that.<\/p>\n
Georgia may be an ally of the US. But the US is rather occupied elsewhere these days.<\/p>\n
Next thing you know, we’ll hear Iran moved against Israel. And China against Taiwan. And North Korea against the South. And Iran against the US.<\/p>\n
Or something.<\/p>\n
Wars and rumors of wars, you know.<\/p>\n
You can run, but you can’t hide.<\/p>\n
So face it.<\/p>\n
Well, anyway. What shall we Christians in America do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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