I'm not sure that Georgia could realistically have expected the west to get involved in another Chechnya, particularly as we're already involved in another "great game" central-Asian folly.
The whole of Transcaucasia seems to be getting bloodier, again, with Ngorno Karabakh flaring up, too: it was never really sorted after the soviet collapse: a bit like a mirror of Yugoslavia in the Warsaw Pact countries, I suspect it will take a fair amount of bloodletting before the various people are arranged in an acceptable manner.
Russia is looking very, very scary at the moment, and was even before the invasion. For example, since 2003, it's had an official and open policy of allowing the use of the threat of small scale tactical nuclear destruction of regional centres as a bargaining chip in political discussions.
Gorbachev spent many of his last months in office sorting out the 1991 Sino-Russian Border Agreement, which seemed mad at the time, but for which I think we should be very grateful right now.
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Date: 2008-08-13 12:26 am (UTC)I'm not sure that Georgia could realistically have expected the west to get involved in another Chechnya, particularly as we're already involved in another "great game" central-Asian folly.
The whole of Transcaucasia seems to be getting bloodier, again, with Ngorno Karabakh flaring up, too: it was never really sorted after the soviet collapse: a bit like a mirror of Yugoslavia in the Warsaw Pact countries, I suspect it will take a fair amount of bloodletting before the various people are arranged in an acceptable manner.
Russia is looking very, very scary at the moment, and was even before the invasion. For example, since 2003, it's had an official and open policy of allowing the use of the threat of small scale tactical nuclear destruction of regional centres as a bargaining chip in political discussions.
Gorbachev spent many of his last months in office sorting out the 1991 Sino-Russian Border Agreement, which seemed mad at the time, but for which I think we should be very grateful right now.