*Sexytime picture of Vladmir Putin, just because.
"The Russian tiger has finally swatted the Georgian mouse."---Simon Sebag Montefiore, the author of Young Stalin
The first time I realized there was a Georgia outside the dirty south was at one of my many New York City waitressing jobs. I made the embarrasing guffaw of asking "the server from Georgia" if Hotlanta was really as hot as it's name.
I got a blank stare, and then a broken English geography lesson.
Amidst my booty shaking, tan peeling, shot-imbibing mental vacation in Miami, my blood-shot eyes scanned a headline "Russia invades Georgia" and my mind sifted past the latest Lil' Wayne song, a recent analysis of wedge shoes vs. slingbacks, and the pros and cons of spray tans, and finally grasped on the little nugget of trivia I'd learned years back.
Georgia: a transcontinental country partially in Eastern Europe and partially in Southwest Asia in the Caucasus region.
Really, this seems like a conflict of he said, she said. As Slate.com put it "Russian sources said that Georgia had launched an invasion of South Ossetia, aiming to pacify the breakaway region. Georgia, meanwhile, said that its troops entered the South Ossetian "capital" in response to escalating South Ossetian attacks."
By far the best analysis of this event is Simon Sebag Montefiore's essay "Another battle in the 1,000 year Russia-Georgia grudge match" where he describes the country's desire to be part of NATO and the "swaggering arrival" of Vladmir Putin, "macho in his tight jeans and white leather jacket."
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