When Milosevic attacked with Serbia the area of Kosovo, it became clear that this land will sooner or later, with help of Europe and USA, become an independent State.
When Saakashvili attacked Ossetia and Abkhazia, it became equally obvious that Russia would claim independency for these areas, just as Kosovo did. There is no difference, apart from formal steps to let independence be.
This is a normal procedure - but in the eyes of Western Media a crime.
Let's make some political pink views of the West be clearly stated: A nation like USA, forcing Europe over its war-organisation NATO in horrible and criminal fights and civil misuse of folks in Iraq and Afghanistan, should keep quiet for a while.
Same nation arranged with simplifying theorems in Economics that the stock exchanges, financial systems and banks risk to tumble to hell, based on a hegemonial spleen of GW Bush, who took the idea over from Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, well, such a State must - in the interest of a NEW EQUILIBRIUM OF POWER on this Globe - be put in its correct position of influence on this globe, by some other powers, such as Russia, India and China.
Would those other big Nations act differently, a human holocaust could result since we have seen the geo-political results of behaviourism of USA in Vietnam, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Iraq and Afghanistan and perhaps soon in Iran or other lands, and remember, we have only ONE Globe with restricted land areas, oceans, resources, energy and human rights.
All these comments are rather difficult to be understood and therefore, I recommend to Putin and Medvedev:
Just accept the Nato's plans to take over, like it was a fact before the famous U.S. driven breakdown of socialism in pre-Soviet-Union and "New Europe", such stupid geo-political plans out of the kitchen of Kagan, Cheney and Kissinger.
On the other hand, insist on the right to see former parts of Georgia, Ukraine, Poland and other parts of New Europe split from Old Europe, and become independent, creating new States and entering in a "Union of Interest" with Russia.
These lands will get the right to be under the protection of NEW RUSSIA who will posses the future power and also future immense possibilities in energy and resources, whereas OLD USA and Europe are fully dependant of the goodwill of Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, South Africa and some other important export lands, for energy and resources, on this globe.
We face complete new GEO-POLITICS in questions of power, of energy and other resources, changing any future prospects in trying to survive the present downfall of Economics all over this planet Earth.
I am sure that not one percent of people will understand of what I am writing here. Good so. It will be good enough if some reasonable parts of States don't fall into the trap of wrong and dangerous theories, diffused by western Murdoch Media.
You can agree with what is written here - but you cannot change the vast geo-political realities, as they are in the year 2008.
Rene Delavy, Berlin and Bournemouth
Author of "Criminal acts in politics of USA since 1950" / "Theorems of Economics will destroy the future of our planet" / "Caucasus - Russian politics a bad copy of USA?"