This week’s poem of the week is the song Delarey. It was brought to mind by the problems that Georgia is experiencing. The Boers lost their war against the English but they prevailed in the end. When the English withdrew from South Africa they left the Boers in charge. But even still the Boers still cling to memory of their lost war as a badge of honor and so will the Georgians after the Russians have beaten them.

The difference between the Georgians and the Boers is that when the Russians inevitably get draw away by other problems the Georgians will have the demographic majority in their own country. Then it will be a bad time to be a member of the ethnic minorities who sided with the Russians. One only has to think of what happened to the Africans after the English left South Africa even though the Africans outnumbered the Boers. The ethnic minorities that are siding with Russia will not even have that advantage