We're talking about a country which has in recent years been at war with a super power- Russia, which also makes life as hard as possible for the nation economically such that it's poor- all this in the middle of a recession which Georgia was not immune to, and hence has plenty of decaying infrastructure. Whether it's areas abandoned as a result of war, whether it's leftovers of the destruction
The "war" has lasted a week, with a grand total of 160 military and 60 civilian deaths on Georgian side (and about 1000 wounded). The amount of damage from that was very limited on both sides of the conflict - and that was more than 2 years ago by now.
In fact, I would expect a good chunk of the copper to have been laid by the former Soviet Union.
Any such copper on Georgian territory would then be owned by the Georgia - i.e. state property, not no-one's property.
I remember jokes about French tanks have 1 forward gear and 5 reverse around 1984 when I was in Junior High.
What's curious is that I have heard that exact joke (albeit in a different language) about Arab tanks, in the aftermath of Yom Kippur War.
It was essentially surrender, and have life pretty much go on as it was, except with Wehrmacht officers sitting at a table at your cafe
... and Jews and other undesirables rounded up and sent to Germany for gassing.
versus having the country torched.
Soviets had that choice also - in fact, their choice was much worse as they weren't treated as "fellow Europeans" by Germans - and yet they chose differently. Largely thanks to that choice, French did not have to endure Wermacht officers for long.
To summarize my latter post, I love how GNOME 3 "puts me in the driver's seat".
My problem with GNOME 3 is that it does put you into the driver's seat alright - that of a train on a single track.
Iconoclasts too
Well, there is RMS. Or is it idolatry? ~
With your bare hands?!?