James Duncan

I am at a Mexican resturant in Georgia. The food was cooked by someone who clearly had once seen Mexican food in a film but had no further clues. It's appalling.

The news is insane. Georgian troops have made a huge push into Ossetia, and the Russians don't appear to be doing anything but falling back to the tunnel that comes through the mountains. Misha Saakashvili just appeared on TV with a big smile on his face and said "we control ALL areas of South Ossetia" in Georgian. I think that looking like you are gloating over Russia's defeat is a sure way to make this a lot more serious, it's not a smart move at all. Russians armoured troops are moving over the border, and part of me suspects that the Russians have just fallen back to a bridgehead. I think Georgia is about to get it's ass kicked, and it's surprising that Misha can't see he just made it impossible to avoid. He has just absolutely forced Russia to have to act or be humiliated and have their new president publicly politically castrated on the Russian evening TV bulletins.

There's a protest up at the Russian Embassy on TV and we are going now. It's only going to get bigger.

Oh, random bonus...we saw a picture of the bombing we missed in Gori (it's the pic attached to this post).