RUSSIA SENDS MORE TROOPS TO GEORGIA

It looks like war is near...

The United States on Sunday expressed dismay over the deployment of additional Russian troops to Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, adding that it has addressed its concern to Moscow.

Georgia accused Moscow of trying to annex the impoverished Black Sea region after Russia sent unarmed troops on Saturday to rebuild a railway in Abkhazia. Russia called the deployment "humanitarian aid."

"The United States is dismayed by Russia's Defense Ministry announcement on May 31 that it intends to send more military forces, including railroad construction troops, into the Georgian region of Abkhazia without the consent of the Georgian government," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement.

Georgia said on Friday it had stopped flights by pilotless drones over Abkhazia to quell Western fears that tensions between Tbilisi and Moscow could degenerate into war.

I think the Russians have forgotten the ass-kicking they received in Afghanistan.