In fact, the Ball Gunner loooooooooooves to say “I told you so.”

So, in true Ball Gunner fashion:

 Russian troops enter South Ossetia after Georgia offensive

MEGVREKISI, Georgia (AFP) — A Russian army convoy entered South Ossetia on Friday and Russian planes attacked a Georgian military base, reports said, after Georgian forces pounded the capital of the breakaway province and warned of “war” if Russia intervened.

Amid spiralling tensions, Moscow threatened retaliation after Russian forces in the beleaguered city of Tskhinvali were reported killed in a night-time Georgian artillery and air barrage.

Dozens of Russian tanks and military vehicles headed for the four-kilometre (2.5 mile) Roki tunnel, which leads into South Ossetia , an AFP reporter at the frontier said.

Russia’s three main news agencies said a convoy had crossed into South Ossetia.

“We cannot allow the deaths of our countrymen to go unpunished. The guilty parties will receive the punishment they deserve,” Russia President Dmitry Medvedev said earlier.

Georgia’s National Security Council warned however that there would be “a state of war” between the two countries if the Russian military convoy entered the rebel region, which gets strong backing from Moscow.

Russian aircraft meanwhile launched an attack on a military base near Tbilisi, Georgian interior ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told AFP.

Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili warned of “large-scale military intervention” and ordered a mass mobilisation.

He said his country’s operation had been successful and “most of South Ossetia’s territory is liberated and is controlled by Georgia.”

 
♫ I told you so. I told you so. I told you so, here:
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And I told you so, here:
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And I told you so, here:
Doings in Serbia and Pakistan ♫

This is a brilliant move in true Russian fashion. The Americans and NATO will be humiliated and just in time for the Olympic opening ceremony. Georgia was aspiring for NATO membership and was presumably under the protection of the alliance. But the illusion has been shattered.

The Russians are chess players, they have been waiting for their opening ever since they were so rudely brushed off in regard to Kosovo. It seems they have found their door.

Is it bad taste to say that the Russians will go through Georgia like Sherman through Atlanta?

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