The ballet of boats
Dick Cheney's little (and wicked late) dip into the blue water naval toolkit -- a kit he and Donald Rumsfeld tried very hard to short so they could go long on what really matters -- gun boats and gun trucks to decorate the sandbox -- has yeilded a symmetric payoff. Three or more US boats in Georgian ports and four Russian boats in Venezuelan ports.
Symmetry, oh fearful symmetry. That's the Mount Whitney, at Poti.