Rune,
“It’s not a matter of right or wrong. It’s a matter of precedence. Kosovo set a precedence.”

It DID NOT! The precedence is Chechnya. The Russian’s WANT Kosovo to be the precedence, but there are to many dissimilar points.
Kosovo AND Serbia were part of Yugoslavia, the Serbs had NO legal or moral claim to Kosovo. When Yugoslavia broke up, they took Kosovo because they were stronger. They weren’t strong enough to keep it.
The Ossetia issue was settled by treaty in 1991 (IIRC). Russia got the north, Georgia the South. Just as Chechnya was legally part of Russia by treaty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossetia

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“the international community refuses to recognize South Ossetia as an independent country and considers the area part of Georgia.”
So by what passes for Law in international affairs, Russia is wrong. About Kosovo AND South Ossetia. So the precedence is that a strong state can rob and rape a weaker state.
As an American, I’m OK with that, so long as America is the strongest state. If I was a Russian, I would be a little nervous about that, since China is elbow deep in people and Siberia is almost empty of them.
So the precedence is that China, being stronger then Russia can take what ever Russian land it needs to make room for it’s people.
I may be confused, but haven’t Russians been down that road before? I vaguely recall some little dude with a funny ‘stash screaming about ‘lebenderaum’ or something like that. My German worse then sucks.

As a sort of FNG that scrolls C-4, I have to ask, Has it ever posted a link supporting ANY of it’s claims?
Here is a link to it’s techniques;

http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-propaganda.html

“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 – 2006)