That's one load of crap and you certainly know it. Kosovo happened to be just good pretext for Putin to do what he was planning to do long time ago. Even back in 2006, when there was no Kosovo independence talks he was drawing parallels between Northern Cyprus and Abkhazia... he had this on his agenda way too long now; why did Russia withdrew from common arms treaty that was preventing it to have more than 200 tanks in southern Russia? I think we know the answer now... and besides, even if Kosovo did not happen and Northern Cyprus would have fallen through, it would be very easy to FSB to blow up three buildings, one in Tskhinvali, one say in Krasnodar and one in the outskirts of Moscow to say that Georgian terrorists did this and that would have been enough justification to invade the country... come on, they were already doing it; remember, when a LPG small tank blew up in Gagra this summer everyone was very quick to find “Georgian trail” in this incident, even though local new paper reported this as a household incident... there was rather sarcastic remarks about this on Lenta.ru....
I think we know the answer now... and besides, even if Kosovo did not happen and Northern Cyprus would have fallen through, it would be very easy to FSB to blow up three buildings, one in Tskhinvali, one say in Krasnodar and one in the outskirts of Moscow to say that Georgian terrorists did this and that would have been enough justification to invade the country... come on, they were already doing it; remember, when a LPG small tank blew up in Gagra this summer everyone was very quick to find “Georgian trail” in this incident, even though local new paper reported this as a household incident... there was rather sarcastic remarks about this on Lenta.ru.... ==
You shouldn’t put up your own speculations as the truth. What if this.. What if that.. Happened is what happened in real..
But in real it was the Georgian regime which decided to quell Osetian resistance by the military force. To do that your army must pass the Russian peacekeepers. So you attacked Russian peacekeeprs means you attacked Russian army batallion. That is the clearest “casus belli”.
If you attack the one country military then you subsequantly declare the war on this country. The consequances fell on your country.