Oh look, the US still has leverage, and by “US,” I mean “France.”
So Russia starts bombing targets inside Georgia, the United States huffs and puffs to no avail. Then French President Sarkozy hops on Easyjet and stops off in Moscow, and within a matter of hours, in fact just after he lands, Russia calls a cease-fire.
MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia announced Tuesday that he had ordered a halt to his country’s military operation in Georgia, although he did not say that troops were pulling out and he insisted that Russian forces were still authorized to fire on enemies in South Ossetia.
Dday isn’t asserting that Sarkozy waved some kind of magic wand, but more like…
…[B]asically, what you have is a country that maintains good relations and holds a little thing called influence, and another country that has, well, nothing of the kind.
And for that, you can thank George W. Bush and his band of merry assholes.
(By the way, for the confused wingnuts, the country that holds influence is France, and the one that doesn’t is Amurka.)
(Because we lost that when we went to war against a sovereign nation that posed no threat to us based on a pack of lies.)
(Duh.)
