Unlike in Chechnya, apparently, religion isn’t a big deal in this one—all parties are generally various flavors of Orthodox Christians. This is a territorial dispute with some ethnic understones, at least as I understand it—and who can understand anything, really, in places like the Balkans and the Caucasus? The grudges and ethnic blood feuds there go back hundreds of years. They make the back-and-forth banter around here about the “War of Northern Aggression” look like child’s play.
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“By the way, I’m curious, is the religion of Peace involved in this conflict?”
Yes, in a way. This is Russia’s response to our support of Kosovo (muslims) declaring independence from Serbia this year.
Russia then set up Georgia to make this attack.
George Bush is naive.