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How far will Putin go
"Why did you throw yourself into the wolf's mouth?" You had to be crazy! ”
By launching an offensive against Tskhinvali, the capital of the Ossetian separatists, has Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili fallen into a trap set by Russia? His army is in disarray, his power very threatened and the process he has started is causing concern far beyond the Caucasus ...
From our special correspondent, Christophe Boltanski
The tankers who, as a sign of victory, raise their fists towards almost deserted sidewalks, do not go towards the front, they leave. With their features drawn, four or five of them piled up with their package on old T-55 tanks covered with leaves and spitting out thick black smoke. The armored column flows back to the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, and storms through Gori, the big city in the North. A strategic location that controls one of the main traffic axes of the country. After four days of violent clashes, the Georgian army is retreating. "How could we resist the Russians?" exclaims Mamouka, a soldier returning from the fighting in South Ossetia, the secessionist province some XNUMX km away. What about aviation? What can we do against their planes? If we stay alone, they will crush Georgia. ”
