No more Mr. Nice Guys

One imagines that the cease-fire agreement between Russia and Georgia was akin to those modern day television drug ads where the "side affects may include" portion passes in a blur. Side effects in this case seem to include the detention of Georgian soldiers, and the "deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure” by Russian forces that, like a bad case of cockroaches, refuse to go away. While some of Russia's forces have been seen pulling out of Gori, they still had artillery in place and were manning checkpoints outside of Tbilisi. This has Brussels in a twitter and they're boldly declaring that until Russia's out of Georgia, it won't be business as usual. But the response is likely to remain muddled because Europe's internal divisions over Russia run nearly as deep as it's division with the U.S. over Russia. Whatever happens next will likely be a bitter pill to swallow with unpredictable side affects.