[E. Cartman]

This is payback for us STUPIDLY supporting Kosovo. We're already overextended militarily, financially and politically and shouldn't get drawn into what's at bottom nothing more than a family squabble.

[Georgia]

I agree. With what we did to Serbia regarding Kosovo, the Russians can claim genocide or some other BS as to why they support the rebels.
I wonder if this has any relation to the massive naval buildup I read about earlier headed to the middle east.

http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2008/08/massive-us-naval-armada-heads-for-iran.html

I have no idea if this story is true, but I have seen it in more than one place. I wonder if the Rooskies are just trying to flex their muscle in the region.