A comparison between South Ossetia and Kosovo clearly shows the hypocrisy of the international community. With that said, it's still sad that this could not be resolved peacefully.
The question is also, was it ever meant to be solved peacefully. As far as I remember, South Ossetia was an autonomous region inside the sector of Georgia in the USSR, and kept this limited cultural autonomy during the independence of Georgia (for example the local Ossetian language was NEVER a official language in the region in the past century).
Like it is now, it is not a conflict South Ossetia vs Georgia, but a conflict Russia-Georgia. The fact that over 60% of the citizens in South Ossetia say, they have Russian citizenship is another piece in the puzzle. Back into the realm.
Just like the Kosovo, none of the small tribal areas of Georgia can survive alone. Kosovo can't work without the support of the EU, though it would have better chances in it's geographical region than South Ossetia or Abkhazia (the autonomous republic Georgia accepts and which got created after an
ethic cleansing of 200,000 Georgians by Abkhazian and Russian troops in the Abkhazian War of 1993)
So, while not all is good in Georgia (not at all), historically, Georgia was more on the victim side in the last 20 years than Russia. And maybe in some months, we can say that Russia has Georgia on it's mind.
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Now I know what the UN is -- at best a bureaucratic monstrosity, at worst a front for the most regressive and nasty regimes in the world. The day the Muslim League countries refused to sign the UN charter on human rights, the whole stupid thing should have been shut down as the sham it is.
Yeah. This would have been an act of self-respect. After all, these universal human rights are considered the foundation of the UN. Now, the human rights are defined by which kind of ruler you have. A real change to the times before the UN. :dry: