August 20, 2008 -- "Are you ready to risk your prosperity and risk your lives and the lives of your children for the sake of Saakashvili?" Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitri Rogozin asked reporters in Brussels yesterday. He was speaking after NATO condemned Russian military action, in response to attack on South Ossetia ordered by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili -- a puppet of Britain's George Soros. Rogozin called Saakashvili a "war criminal" for bombarding civilians and Russian soldiers in South Ossetia. If NATO had already accepted Georgia as a full member, the Russian Ambassador pointed out, then the Western alliance and Russia would be officially at war right now.

Also yesterday, Russia temporarily sealed its borders with Georgia and Azerbaijan. Interfax reported that Aleksander Bortnikov, head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), said Russia has information that "Georgian special forces were planning terrorist acts" against strategic locations in Russia. They were mobilizing "bandit groups to undertake criminal acts in the North Caucasus," he said, referring to the Russian autonomous republics across the border from Georgia and Azerbaijan.

From the Russian military, yesterday, came Deputy Chief of the General Staff Gen. Col. Anatoli Nogovitsyn's latest blunt-spoken remarks on the Caucasus military situation. According to Interfax-AVN, Nogovitsyn said that Russia will lay claim to whatever armaments in Georgia it considers useful: "We will not leave a single barrel, a single cartridge for Georgia, which initiated this bloodshed," he said in an interview with Interfax-AVN news. "Part of this arsenal, especially ammunition, will be destroyed and are already being destroyed. And as for the rest of the war trophies, we will use them as we please, in particular will take for ourselves part of the tanks and other armored vehicles that are in good condition."