I never thought I’d be reporting news from the “World Socialist Web Site” but here it goes:
Tensions between Russia and Georgia have intensified to the brink of open armed conflict.
Both sides accuse each other of escalating tensions and armed preparations, threatening to plunge the region into a new round of bloody conflicts. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, conflicts in the Caucasus have taken the lives of tens of thousands of people.