To the citizens of the free-world, a word of caution...beware.
The policies of Russia's government are eerily reminiscent of those once employed by its former incarnation, the Soviet Union.
Its belligerent posture and meddlesome ways have only escalated the existing tensions between the separatist Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and the Georgian central government.
Clearly, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili overplayed his hand by failing to heed the U.S.' warning to not take any action against South Ossetia that Russia would almost certainly perceive as hostile; thus compelling them to take up arms in defense of the breakaway province (the majority of whose citizens own Russian passports).
