guerre éclair

Tbilissi comptait apparemment sur une guerre éclair pour mettre la communauté internationale devant le fait accompli.
Tbilisi was apparently counting on a blitzkrieg that would have faced the international community with a fait accompli.
Nous en sommes au septième jour, les événements dramatiques nous apprennent que ce ne sera pas une guerre éclair.
We are on day seven, and the dramatic events tell us that it will not be a blitzkrieg.
On s'attendait à une guerre éclair, mais elle a duré un an.
It was expected to be a blitzkrieg, but it lasted a year.
La blitzkrieg ou "guerre éclair", ne doit pas laisser..
On the night of May 13, they bring in beams to build bridges.
Mais les populations d’Ossétie du Sud payent encore le prix fort de la guerre éclair entre la Russie et la Géorgie.
But the people of South Ossetia are still paying a massive price for the brief war between Russia and Georgia.
On nous dit qu'une guerre éclair permettrait d'abord d'installer la démocratie en Irak, ensuite de tarir la source du terrorisme.
We are told that a blitzkrieg would make it possible first of all to establish democracy in Iraq and then to dry up the springs of terrorism.
Et pourtant, que nous dit-on de la situation en Afghanistan, où une guerre éclair s'est déroulée et où, jour après jour, dans le silence, nous assistons au drame des femmes afghanes ?
Yet what are we being told about the situation in Afghanistan, where a blitzkrieg has already taken place and where, day after day, in silence, we witness the plight of Afghan women?
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