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...Heavy fighting between Russian troops and Chechen fighters on Thursday offers a timely assist for President Vladimir Putin's efforts to convince the UN Security Council that Russia faces a dangerous threat from Georgian territory. What is taking place...
...President Putin harbors a deep, visceral dislike of Georgia's President Eduard Shevardnadze. Russian leaders blame him for his key role - while serving as Gorbachev's foreign minister in the late 1980s - in the breakup of the Soviet Union, its retreat from Eastern Europe, and Georgia's move into the NATO orbit. Russians feel that control over Georgia is their birthright and also a vital component of their own security...
...that Putin has this "smoking gun" proving infiltration from Georgia, what will Russia do next...
...There's been speculation for weeks now that Putin wants to do an Iraq-for-Georgia deal with the U.S. - supporting Bush's plans for regime change in Baghdad in exchange for a green light to send his own troops into Georgia. How likely is such a deal...
...Until now, Washington has restrained Putin from moving against Georgia. Russia may now be telling the Americans that Russia has to do something, like it or not, and may be calculating that the U.S. won't try to stop them. They'll be trying to convince the U.S. that Georgia is not a friend, and that it harbors terrorists. But if the U.S. firmly restates its position that Georgia is a red line that Russia cannot cross, Putin will probably back down. He values his relationship with Washington too highly to take on Bush...