The Ukraine and Armeina both just announced that they will NOT join Georgia in leaving the CIS.

That would be economic suicide.

Which is what Saakvashili will be committing his people to if he stays out of the CIS and continues his ultra-nationalistic Milosevic-style policy of wanting to win back those territories militarily.

Richard Fernandez: Please do a blog posting comparing this to Kosovo.

The Russians said the exact same things about our attacks on Serbia as I am seeing from Neocons now.

Most bloggers outside of the USA talk about this being Kosovo in reverse.