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Theneo-con Barstool Rambos, Joe Lieberman and the other warmongers, who just can’t get enough of conflict (that someone else has to fight, of course, or which will be fought on behalf of someone else like, say, Israel), must be ecstatic. Looks like Russian and Georgia are near to war. It may not be much compared to the lust for war with Iran but it’ll have to do.

Seems like the new tsars in Moscow are not amused that Georgia would be in NATO so they are putting on their usual low grade threatening behavior, enough to inspire the Georgians to talk of imminent conflict.

The Russians may have enough of a problem on their hands: The hooligans are coming.

“MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has waived entry visa requirements for fans with a valid
ticket for the May 21 Champions League Final in Moscow, a match organizer told
Reuters on Monday.

” ‘A fan can come without a visa and…enter Russia with a valid ticket,’ said Alexei
Sorokin, the Russian official coordinating preparations for the match. ‘It is an
unprecedented decision by the Russian government.’

“Tens of thousands of English fans are expected to travel to the match with
Manchester United and Chelsea facing each other in the final at the Luzhniki
Stadium.”

There are about six people left on the planet Earth who imagine England to be a delicate civilized place awash in Masterpiece Theater and the Bard — when it is Benny Hill and soccer violence that better characterizes the kingdom. Benny Hill is actually terrific but the hooligans are thugs and louts on a world class, even Russian, scale.

The idea that tens of thousands of English soccer fans are invading Russia does not bode well for the new government there. These fans can be so violent, so rude, so destructive as to classify as weapons of mass destruction.  Hailed Britannia has been banned from international competition because its fans are such a menace. Now Russia opens wide the doors to them. Good luck. 

Maybe they are Georgia’s secret weapon.