Why did he do it? Why did Saakashvili step into the bear-trap? Did he think NATO would join in? Perhaps as a result of adept disinfo operations from the Russians? (it would seem that NATO, for its part, made no insinuation of the sort) Did the Israeli/US/UK axis (ISUSUK) instigate, believing it would mire the Russians in a Georgian brier patch, thus clearing the way to move on Iran? Did a third party, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), intervene with silence in order to throw a monkey wrench at ISUSUK? Questions, questions. Motivations are difficult to tease out from what is undoubtedly the extremely tangled web of diplomatic-intelligence-counterintelligence-military operations that brought all of this about. OSCE seems to know who fired first, but mums the word.
If indeed ISUSUK played the instigator, then it was a horrendous blunder on their part. Perhaps ISUSUK, i.e. the neo-con faction, miscalculated the willingness of NATO, of the neo-lib persuasion, to be its puppet again... The latter now says: "fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice? No, we won't be fooled again. One 'Great Game' quagmire at a time, please."
In any case, Russia is for the time being on top, relishing its new resurgence. And now, allegedly, the Russians are enjoying the icing on the cake, in the form of Hummers "carrying explosives, firearms and top-secret satellite technology — the pride of NATO generals."
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