Thirty-six humanitarian-assistance flights by C-17, C-130 and other U.S. military cargo aircraft have delivered more than a million pounds of material to Tbilisi, according to U.S. European Command, whose four-star commander Bantz Craddock is in Tbilisi.
More is on the way via a U.S. Coast Guard cutter from Crete and two Navy warships, one due to arrive this weekend and the rest next week. I suppose this, alone, will prevent the Russians from cannonading Tbilisi, although that remains to be seen. It hasn’t impeded the Russian sowing of cluster bomblets across some farm fields, however. The bomblets were designed for massed infantry, not for children and farmers, so why did we also use them in Afghanistan? We plainly shouldn’t have.
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Nagovitsyn reportedly said in an interview that Russian ships will continue patrolling Poti and “if they think we’re going to sit on the fence watching them snooping around in their hummers, they should think twice” (not a word-word translation).
Doesn’t sound like the diplomacy worked
That will be the flashpoint, I presume, when the Coast Guard cutter and Navy warships arrive at Poti in the next few days. Otherwise, the diplomacy has sort of worked. There’s been some pullbacks and no leveling of Tbilisi with artillery. Not yet, anyway, and Gori seems to have been turned back to the Georgians and the Russians departed from it. Though I read on one Georgian news site that the Russians are still entrenched in the town that has the country’s major electric power plant, without which everything goes dark.
Nagovitsyn could also have been talking about the Georgian freight train that was destroyed by a mine on the tracks.
http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=19278
Looks like the Russkies plan not only to destroy Georgia’s infrastructure but its economy as well.
Meanwhile the Navy and CG ships have arrived at a different port, south of Poti, but I wonder how they will ship their goods across the country to Tbilisi, if, as reported, the Russians control the main highway. Hope there are other RR tracks, as the mined one seems to be out of business.
On the train, AP is reporting only the last third of the train was hit, indicating it was a command-detonated mine set off by someone nearby. So the engine wouldn’t be damaged but the tracks would be blocked until the burned cars could be removed.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gDNLWfQWKrQc48pITBUg9KT_6oVwD92OOO5O0