{"id":192145,"date":"2009-05-05T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/05\/there-is-a-context-in-georgia\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:08:00","slug":"there-is-a-context-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/05\/there-is-a-context-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"There is a Context in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I am not sure what it is, so the report of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-georgia-mutiny6-2009may6,0,3796773.story\">tank battalion mutinies in Georgia<\/a> is concerning, but I do not know what it means.<\/p>\n<p>I still believe that the Russians have thoroughly penetrated the Georgian state security apparatus, so I don&#8217;t see this as being part of a Russian backed coup.  It would have been more extensive and better organized if it had.<\/p>\n<p>It is likely, however, that the Russians were aware of what was going on before the Georgians, and certainly they view the events with no small amount of schadenfreude, but I think that whatever happened here had a lot more to do with what is going on in Georgia than with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I have yet to see anyone, anywhere give more specifics than, there was a mutiny, and the Georgians accused the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there is something to be found on Georgian or Russian language sites, but I can&#8217;t read either tongue.<\/p>\n<p>My guess would be that there are elements in the Georgian military not happy with the NATO exercises, but that is only a very uninformed guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I am not sure what it is, so the report of a tank battalion mutinies in Georgia is concerning, but I do not know what it means. I still believe that the Russians have thoroughly penetrated the Georgian state security apparatus, so I don&#8217;t see this as being part of a Russian backed coup. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,1006,1043,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-military","category-nato","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}