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The American and European political leadership had better not forget exactly who Vladimir Putin is. He is ex KGB and as such grew up and matured under a very circumspect way of thinking. He is a cold and calculating individual that thinks nothing of the lives of people if it serves his interests in the great game of power politics. He has waited for the opportune moment to make his move into Georgia. A time of the Chinese Olympic coming out party onto the world stage. A time of financial and energy crisis in the world, and a upcoming Presidential election in the USA. All create the perfect moment of distraction,instability and uncertainty for him to accomplish his goals. The only question is whether he will settle for short yardage of the US abandoning the Strategic Defense Initiative for peace in our time.

Can you imagine Putin sitting in the audience at the Olympic games in Beijing, calmly smiling while his tanks are moving into Georgia? That my friends is pure political cunning in its highest form. Mr Putin presence was for damage control if the need arose and one could also bet that Mr Putin had some kind of dialog with GW Bush and or the Chinese. When that was accomplished he got on his jet back to the USSR. Mission Accomplished.

Since when were agents of the KGB ever noted for their humanitarianism? Think of the system that Putin grew up under and the mind set it took to rise to power under those circumstances. Cold, calculating, cunning and ruthless in the attainment of ones goals is an apt description of a rise to ultimate power in Russia. The Russians are a tough people who understand privation and are willing to sacrifice whatever it takes to attain a goal, that is their history. The Russian leadership views Americans and Western Europeans as being complacent bourgeoisie without any backbone to stand up. They have found their propitious moment of opportunity and they have taken it to reassert themselves on the world stage.