[SolidWood]

What a blunder it was to push for Kosovo’s independence! This gave Russia all the pretextual precedent they will ever need to invade any neighbor with a Russian-speaking minority.

Kosovo gave Russia merely a convenient talking point. We should be under no illusion. Russia would have done exactly the same thing without Kosovo. BTW the whole issue has little to do with "Russian-speaking". The Ossets are Iranian-related ethnically and linguistically. The Russians merely handed them out fresh passports as a pretext for invasion.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

excellant points.thanks so much for clarifying so much misinformation that the western media just akes from the KGB talking points.