confronationalism it should also be mentioned that saakashvili seems to be picking a fight so to speak with russia creating one crisis after the next the wine import problem moving troops into kodori arresting russian officers for espianage each one of these events and a few others were or are conducted with the least amount of tact possible the objective in all these cases seems to be the provocation of the russian government as this is a very real trend in saakashvili's foreign policy it should be mentioned in more detail