Saakashvili will sink or swim

Do you guys think this is the same guy as from some previous posts on this subject?

Cycloptichorn

Sure. Why do you ask?

("Maxl"? )

With the recent happenings in the region, it wouldn't be surprising to see an uptick in online discussion of said region. But I know there have been a lot of these one hit, one-paragraph, one post users and I always wonder why they bother to do such a half-assed job, lol

Cycloptichorn

Yes, it would actually be really interesting to get the perspective of someone from the region... but the perspective of these posts has consistently been anti-Georgian, pro-Russian... not to mention the pure propagandist language.

Weird.

This might sound funny, but is this a version of the cyber-warfare they talk about these days? In that somebody in the structure sez 'gee, it would be cheap to post pro-Russian stuff all over the web, get on it, Comrade!'

Cycloptichorn

That'd be my guess - which, like you said (or was it OE?), just leaves the question why they do such a lousy job of it! They cant really think these snippets of incoherent ranting are going to persuade anyone, can they?

There's, like, a seriously cohesive case against Georgia and for the Ossetians to be made, for example - one I would passionately disagree with, but that might well win over many onlookers. This is obviously not it. Weird.

Then again, I read some article about the PUMA's (the bitter Hillaristas who never gave up), and turned out that at their recent super-secret meeting, one of the main items on the agenda was "Leveraging the progressive blogosphere. Past-present-future." I saw that and remembered the endless numbers of all-caps, hateful, incoherent rants by a band of devoted, self-identified PUMAs in the comments section of various blogs and news sites, which I'd always laughingly dismissed as the ravings of some seriously overboard individuals who were just discrediting themselves in the process. And suddenly realised: could they actually be doing this in a concerted fashion and believing it to be a strategy?

You wouldnt think the FSB would be as delusionary as the PUMAs though. Maybe it's a team of patriotic Abkhaz students at the University of Sukhumi?

Georgia...
Georgia...
The whole day through
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind