The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ...but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. - H.P. Lovecraft
“But God’s not involved here. The players are Russia, Georgia — and us, as Georgia’s new best pal. The CIA and the Georgians are very, very tight. The reason is the same reason as Iraq: oil. We want Caspian Sea oil, and the pipeline we’re building to take that oil passes through goes through Georgia. Or more specifically, through Adzharia, and into Turkey. America armed and trained the Georgians so they could take back Adzharia, which they did. We got what we wanted, but Saakashvili wants more. He thinks it’s a quid pro quo, and he wants South Ossetia too. The Russians don’t like this at all, and the Ossetians side with the Russians. Or rather, they need the Russians.”
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THE EXILE - Ossetia: Great Danes and Great Russians - By Gary Brecher - The War Nerd

4 years ago. That’s why I read the man.