remember that thing we called the “Cuban Missile Crisis?”

we have been actively searching for suckers close to Russian territory for a long while. the idea is simple: place US early warning stations and anti-ICBM weapons close to Russia. that’s a huge advantage and much easier for us to deal with Russian missiles within a few dozen miles away from their border instead of from halfway around the world.

not surprisingly it kinda angered the Russians. if i remember correctly we were kinda mad at them and the Cubans in the early 1960s for, uh, i dunno. commies trying to place missile bases within a hundred miles of Florida… or something?

tactical advantage is the bottom line why we have been supporting the Georgians. unfortunately for us after becoming too cozy- arming and training them, they got a little too big for their britches and decided to muck around in local disputed territories with their neighbors.

they got their asses kicked.

i expect the Russians are not going to back down or let up. in a way i can’t say i blame them. after all we would have done the same thing to Cuba had the situation escalated. the Russians are stopping us from building bases in their backyard by invading and crushing Georgia.

but that’s okay. Poland just signed a deal to let us place early warning stations and military bases on their soil within a hundred miles of Russia. so who needs those pesky Georgians anyway? send ‘em all back to peanut farming in Atlanta!