[lbo-talk] South Ossetia

[C. G. Estabrook]

Even if the US is not involved immediately, it certainly is in regard to

   [a] expanding NATO (which of course the US promised it wouldn't do, at the 
time of the unification of Germany);

   [b] soliciting Georgia as a locus for oil and gas pipelines from the Caspian 
to Turkey (avoiding Russia);

   [c] supporting (if not more) the "Revolution of Roses" and Saakashvili; and

   [d] in another way, providing the example for dismantling states, as in 
Serbia (and now apparently Bolivia): in March the South Ossetians specifically 
invoked US support for Kosovo's secession when they rejected a Georgian 
power-sharing deal and insisted on full independence.  --CGE

Chris Doss wrote:
> I actually doubt the US is involved.
>