Have handbasket, will travel

Among the quotations from this weekend that I didn't need to hear was this one:

Shota Utiashvili, an official in the Georgian Interior Ministry, said the Russians had moved tanks and troops to within a few kilometers of Gori and were “trying to cut the country in half.”

Mr. Utiashvili said that if they tried to occupy Georgia, “there will probably be guerrilla warfare all over the country.” 

He said: “We need large supplies of humanitarian aid, because we have thousands of wounded. And weapons. We need weapons.”

 (via the NYT)

Russia continues to confound, and there is nothing we can do.

You wonder if Putin has planned to cow the rest of the former republics by making an example of Georgia.