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Is Putin Blinking?

By John Tabin on 8.14.08 @ 11:17AM

If reports that Russian troops are turning back from Gori are correct, then the steps for which the Wall Street Journal praises the Bush administration today may already be working.

If this is a head-fake, though, the US still has options. Charles Krauthammer has a column today with a lot of ideas on how to get Russia to back off from the goal of a puppet government in Georgia.

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