War Handwavium

The feud between Georgia and Ossetia, with Ossetia backed by Russia and Georgia being pro-West, is still simmering.

Ossetia closed its border with Georgia, stating concerns about H1N1. But rumor has it the real reason is that they’re concerned about Georgia doing cross-border raids.

If this blows up into another reenactment of Georgia’s 2008 invasion of Ossetia, don’t be too surprised.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/08/200986182358922172.html

I wrote up a short history of the decades old conflict between Georgia and Ossetia here:

http://www.warhw.com/2008/11/02/georgia-on-my-mind/