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.
I am not passing what ifs for truth! Dude, do you even know what casus belli is?
Russian peacekeepers were attacked by South Ossetians together with ESCE mission on or about August 1, but I do not remember Russia sending troops to stop that! Make your mind - in earlier posts you were saying that Georgia attacked peaceful Russian citizens, now you are saying that they attacked peacekeepers... explain to me, how the hell one could have attacked Russian battalion if it's location was way outside of where Georgian troops were attacking illegal convoy and those gangs? Are you sure your own artillery did not shell them just to justify invasion just like Russians did in Chechnya... And don't even tell me that this is something Russian army would never do! And explain to me that even if what you are saying it true, how does that justifies moving troops across Inguri river and bombing civilian installations in Gori, Poti, Tbilisi, Marneuli and Khelvachauri?
Happened is what happened in real..===
And what happened in real was that Putin was looking to pretext to invade the country and replace Saakashvili (after all failed attempts to do this politically) and he did exactly that... Kosovo Shmosovo... all of that is total load of crap! Did you even read the article I sent you yesterday?