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To: Real Man who wrote (10264)	8/13/2008 12:18:06 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71454

As far as I see it, by international law, Georgia has the right to invade South Ossetia in order to restore their authority, and Russia has no right to make any deals with South Ossetia on military intervention, and Russia has no right to prevent Georgia doing military actions in South Ossetia. Anybody can make any agreement with anyone. The question is, what kind of order we want internationally, and whether agreements conform with international law. The international order means that SO is part of Georgia, not Russia. Russia basically involved itself in an internal Georgian conflict. By the logic of the Russian government, it would be OK for USA to make a deal with some resistance people in Chechnya, that if Russia tries to restore authority over Chechnya, USA will invade Russia and bomb Novgorod. I don't see how such a logic makes the world a better place to be. The Russian may have stopped their army by now - but they kick-started looting and lawlessness in Gori and probably elsewhere - leaving it up to the Georgian government to get everything back in shape. But the violence in Georgia doesn't seem to have stopped, the general situation seems to have gotten worse, and I haven't seen anything that indicates, that Russia did anything that benefits anybody. I heard an east european guy today who said that this was all probably Putin's attempt to ensure, that Medvedev doesn't get too powerful. I'm not sure this is true, but there's certainly more to this than just international politics. I look forward to see how (or if?) Russia will help Georgia regain full military control of South Ossetia and Abkhasia, as they should, if they want to be a good or trustworthy member of the international community.