Although Google knows where Caucasian Georgia is, apparently it thinks there are no roads or towns there. So what's all the fighting about? Search the map for "Gori, Georgia" and see for yourself.

A trainload of soldiers, all dressed in nice warm greatcoats and fur hats arrived in a sleepy railway station in S. England ready to be sent across the channel. Seeing this mass arrival, a local asked where they were from. The reply, in a broad accent, was "Ross-shire".

Consternation followed, as the rumour spread around the village that "the Russians have landed"

They'll be stuck in traffic on the 285...

"What do you mean there are 2 of them???"

Getting the Falklands and the Shetlands confused was quite widespread in the early days of April 1982 - my mum was one.

HAVE YOU PHONED YOU SISITER - GOGOLE MIGHT BE RIGHT - ITS ALL A GUMMENT COVER UP

On the other hand you could just have a little lie down until the meds kick in...

Ha ha, Hilarious... except it looks like Putins lot are taking all of Georgia and have killed 1500+ so far. Old style Russia invading a smaller neighbour. If Russia takes Georgia we lose the Baku pipeline and Russia controls almost all of our oil supplies.

US is weak, has no credibility and is tied down in Iraq. EU is split, part Nato, part not, no unified defence, no democratic leadership, and the countries in the East have populations part sympathetic to Russia, and others are dependant on Russia for fuel.

Not good.

Are you real?

Nah. There is no way you can be real.

Can you? Are you?

WE LET YOU WIN HAHAHAHAHAHA...

A month or so ago, as part of a personal attempt to understand the situation in Abkhazia, I resorted to Google maps. To my surprise, there is NO map data for Georgia, Azerbaijan, or Armenia. Satellite imagery was only available at the coarsest resolutions, enough to see the snow on the peaks of the Caucasus, but not much more.

I then tried Google satellite imagery of Tbilisi out of curiosity. All well and good: nice, sharp, high-resolution images of the city suggesting the images were captured during a morning rush hour in winter, judging from the amount of traffic and angle and length of shadows.

I then followed what looked like a major highway, adjacent to a river and a railway northwest out of the city center. Suddenly the imagery simply stops.

Somebody, somewhere, doesn't want us looking closely at Georgia.

For those curious, I did find a UN map of Georgia in the form of a PDF.

From a political p.o.v., Georgia appears to be on the verge of paying a very high price for their obduracy over Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Hindsight is always 20-20, but it's easy to see now that in the 15+ years since these regions asserted their independence from Georgia, at some point Georgia should have simply tossed in the towel, recognized their independence, and marched into the future with a diminished territory.

As matters stand today, we may be witnessing the death of an independent Georgia. Russia is acutely aware of the desirability of maintaining a monopoly over oil transport from the east to Europe, and the Georgian pipeline from Baku on the Caspian to Turkey is the only link not under their control. The Russians are no fools, and don't give a damn what the world thinks as they proceed to reconvert Georgia into a puppet state by the use of military force.

So long, Rose Revolution!

Viamichelin.com shows it as all B roads, which I guess is why it doesn't show up any roads when Google zoom level shows A roads.

Click the satellite button (bottom left on Viamichelin) and you can see the mountain range between North and South Ossetia. Looking at the scale of it, it's barely 100km across, there's no way they'll stop the Russian army.

If they've captured Senaki, then they're driving a wedge into Georgia from the east. While their 'peace keeping' force is driving from the north. No doubt when they control Georgia, Putin will tell the world they were 'invited' in.

Question is, what can be done? Can Turkey help them? I won't fill up at Lukoil, but there's practically no other trade with Russia and token gestures won't work.

No one has mentioned red Dawn

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087985/.

They might be able to take Georgia , but they would be scared off when they hit states like West Virgina. And dont get me started on the Application mountains. They have an unidentified mutant man ape creates there . A pissed off southern aint no joke

Its booze, god and country.

Que inbreeding jokes.

I wanted to point out that Jim was a troll from CW!

"No one has mentioned red Dawn"

The first one did it, didn't you notice the "WOLVERINES!" title?

Anyway ... I do remember that when I was a kid (6 yrs old?) that when Georgia was mentioned, I also thought about the US state, but that is because back then, everything over there was "the USSR". It wasn't until secondary school when we started seeing the zillion formerly-Soviet countries in our Geography class.