Either way, be it Georgia on the Black Sea or Georgia with a sea of Blacks, they have invaded a sovereign country, pardon the pun :-) Russian propaganda is not very effective abroad, I agree. Russia was obviously unprepared for the informational dimension of this war. She had no experts fluent in news-speak ready to explain their position. No ...

According to press reports (Izvestia newspaper) Georgia has the ''best equipped' army in the former Soviet Union.  It appears that a lot of equipment came from the US.  If you look at the canteen of the second soldier in the front row you can see the ''US'' mark.  The video from the CNN page (my prev. ...