[Tailgunner Joe]

The main difference between the conflicts prior to recognition is that the U.S. and NATO launched the attack on Serbia that later led to this partition, while Russia was repelling an attack from Georgia against the statelets that had effectively broken away decades ago.

Russia attacked Georgia unprovoked in the early 1990's which led to Russia's partition, occupation and annexation of Georgian territories, accomplished through the genocide and ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of innocent ethnic Georgian civilians. Georgia has never attacked Russia, they fight only in self-defense and against revanchist neo-Soviet Russian imperialism.

[Decombobulator]

Baloney.