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I'll bet you 50 bytes that in a week Russia is out of Georgia and Europe and america have agreed to neuter Sakashvilli.

It'll be done in such a way that Europe will be seen to be the mature referee, america will save face by "letting" europe and sarkozy resolve the situation and russia will tell it's people about the heroic liberation.

North and South Ossetia will eventually be reunited, and will become independant under russias protection.

The fate of Abkhazia will probably continue to be messy for years to come.

Sakashvilli will lose his presidency at the next election and a more docile "partner" will take over after running a campaign blaming sakashvilli for nearly turning georgia into a battle field for the two superpowers.

Georgia will remain independant.

If you are right and Putin is the conquering warlord you say he is, he must conquer Georgia in its entirety now. Really, he would have had to do it last week.

If he wants the oil, why did he not annex that part of Georgia. The pipeline goes nowhere near Ossetia, let alone Abkhazia.

I bet 100 bytes that I am right.