Tbilisi, Georgia – Bowing to a withering barrage of pointed criticisms and strongly-worded letters of reprimand from the international diplomatic community, an embarrassed Russian military today abandoned its attack on the former Soviet republic of Georgia late this afternoon and retreated sheepishly over the Caucasus.
“Look, I don’t really know what to say – other than, ‘hey, our bad,’” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an awkward, shoe-gazing statement to the United Nations. “Seriously, dude, it just totally wasn’t like us to lash out like that. We’ve been having a couple of bad decades, and I guess we just sort of snapped.”