And it’s not at the Olympics:
| Russia seizes South Ossetia
Russian 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. Georgia said it had withdrawn most of its troops from South Ossetia in the face of a build-up in Russian firepower and that it had lost control of the near-destroyed regional capital,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. […] “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. […] 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. […] “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. […] The movement of Russia’s naval fleet from their base in Ukraine to positions near Georgia also threatened to destabilise the region. Ukraine’s foreign ministry threatened to prevent the warships from returning to their base in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol. […] 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. On the diplomatic front, a meeting of the UN Security Council on Saturday failed to agree on a call for an immediate ceasefire. |
Russia on the move. Imagine that.
Georgia may be an ally of the US. But the US is rather occupied elsewhere these days.
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.
Or something.
Wars and rumors of wars, you know.
You can run, but you can’t hide.
So face it.
Well, anyway. What shall we Christians in America do?