[Tommyjo]

But you never took a step back to look at the bigger picture. The last thing that the Russians wanted was another occupying army in a land that doesn’t want them. Such a conflict is a sap on government and political lives. Annexing of the regions by use of the big military stick was the goal. The Russians have achieved their aims. They have achieved their territorial gains and bloodied the nose of Saakashvili. They don’t need to go any further.

[justa-hairyape]

But you never took a step back to look at the bigger picture.

Looking at the entire Caucasus with respect to its geopolitical ramifications, is the biggest picture possible.

The last thing that the Russians wanted was another occupying army in a land that doesn’t want them.

I have to bail on this discussion, but please it is clear that you cannot possibly know what the Russians wanted.

They don’t need to go any further.

So this was all about need ?