Caucasian Realpolitik


	Caucasian Realpolitik

hayesstw

9-5-2008 11:38 AM

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geoargia, south ossetia, russia

hayesstw says:

The recent Caucasian conflict shows that among the great powers, Realpolitik still trumps principles and morality.

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forces on South Ossetia, and that ultimately it was unleashed on the
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from the outset that the August war in the Caucasus represented
an assault on small, defenceless and democratic Georgia by huge,
aggressive and authoritarian Russia. This is what almost all the world media have
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