Why are Western pols and pundits so eager to lament poor little Georgia losing the province of South Ossetia, but those same shallow pols and pundits were so eager to support the dismantling of Serbia by recognizing and facilitating the independence of Kosovo? If ethnic Albanians in Kosovo are justified in breaking away from Serbia and depriving Serbia of its ancient heartland, why are the ethnic Russians in South Ossetia not justified in wanting to breakaway from Georgian rule?

The West’s response looks less like a coherent policy based on sound ‘democratic’ principles than it does merely a policy based on anti-Orthodoxy and anti-Russianism. Whatever is opposed to Orthodoxy and to Russia, the West will now support. The fact is that the West’s mindless interventions in Kosovo provide exactly the justification Russia needs for its claims to South Ossestia and similar ethnic Russian provinces in other surrounding states. The West’s response in Kosovso only laid the foundation for further ethnic wars and conflicts in the future.

Also, keep in mind that it was Georgia that first sent troops into South Ossetia, not Russia.