While it’s undoubted that Russia overstepped its bounds in advancing into Georgia the extent it did (though it is useful to remember who thought they’d “occupy” the country and who was saying they’d just reach in and eventually withdraw again), there remains still too much lionizing of Georgia and its president. As Sean-Paul Kelley helpfully noted:
But there it is, on the record: the implication is that the US gave him a green light and he ‘gave the order.’ It doesn’t get much clearer than that. Georgia picked a fight it was unprepared to finish and is still acting pretty belligerent, to boot. Not a good combination. I’d not be surprised if the Russians decided the lesson hadn’t quite been learned. And next time it might be a lot uglier. Georgia should take Josh’s advice: they would be “ill-advised to act as if they are anything but beaten.” And I’d add, they need to learn how to get along with their giant next door neighbor.
That’s, umm, a different Josh. But the point is the same, and it largely confirms much of our early speculation that the U.S. probably bears some degree of culpability for this war, and that it might have even been an attempt by the administration to start a new proxy war.
But we won’t really know, probably ever. Still, the very salient fact that Georgia started a war it could not possibly finish is one any analyst of the situation should not forget. Unfortunately, many seem to.
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