Crow:
if you point on me, you would mistake this time
No finger pointed this time. I know that at least three other members raised Kosovo first. They were probably just trying to lure you in to the conversation. When I said about 'who started it', I was referring to the Russia-Georgia question, not about the drawing-in of other parts of the world into the discussion. So the hoof of blame points elsewhere.
It seems to me that the situation with Georgia is not the same as with other countries that Russia has dominated in the past or continues to dominate.
The central European countries such as Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary and so on have one kind of history with Russia, the Baltic states a different one, Ukraine and Belorus another still, the Trans-Caucasian states yet another.
For those who don't believe Kosovo should have been granted independence, based at least on that country's lack of historical foundation should look to totally different areas when looking at a country like Georgia.
But then there is the situation of the Russian Federation and its own complexities. Within Russia there are so many different groups of Caucasian, Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Tungusic, Samoyedic, Eskimo, blah blah blah peoples with varying levels of autonomy or pseudo-autonomy. Why are some of the now independent states surrounding Russia independent whereas other places, similarly distinctive and also with similar histories, still governed almost entirely by the powers that be in Moscow?
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