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Morning War Update
Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... in the Abkhaz city of Ochamchire, to which it recently built a railroad; this could provide a good jumping off point for threats against the Georgian oil exporting city of Poti. Ukraine is threatening to bar the Russian Fleet from returning to Sevastopol. ...

Georgia
Obsidian Wings — ... Meanwhile, Ukraine is reserving the right to bar Russian warships from returning to Ukranian ports that Russia has leased. (Some of those ships are ...

Russia Takes South Ossetia, Eyes the Rest of Georgia, Seeks to Oust Georgian President
The Sundries Shack — ... Meanwhile, the Ukraine has throw in with Georgia. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said that the country “reserves the right” to bar Russian warships from its ports until “the conflict is solved”. This is a pretty bold move for a nation that could well be Vladimir Putin’s next target. ...

The Caucasus War: It Is About More than “a Kosovo for a Kosovo” Now
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe — ... from the Presidents of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia that condemned Russia’s “imperialist and revisionist policy in the East of Europe.” Poignantly, the Polish President, Lech Kaczynski, is now allowing the Georgian government — whose online portals are blocked by Russian action — to use his own official website to disseminate news and photographs on the war. Most remarkably, Ukraine, which hosts the Russian Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol, is threatening to bar Russian access to the port. Ukraine was one of the two states denied a NATO ...

Georgia’s Defeat and America’s Options
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe — ... to render Georgia material assistance in this war, when it threatened to deny Sevastopol to the Russian Black Sea Fleet. European reluctance to antagonize Russia scuttled the Ukraine’s potential NATO membership at the ...