>>>>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4500362.ece
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>>>>As a Russian jet bombed fields around his village, Djimali Avago, a Georgian farmer, asked me: “Why won’t America and Nato help us? If they won’t help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?”
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>>>>A similar sense of betrayal coursed through the conversations of many Georgians here yesterday as their troops retreated under shellfire and the Russian Army pressed forward to take full control of South Ossetia.
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>>>All should expect something like this after the Kosovo independence.
>>>The only difference between them is that the first one is in Yugoslavia and the other is in Georgia.
>>>I remember I read some political analysis after the Kosovo independence was proclaimed that the next hot spot in the Card will be South Ossetia, but nobody listen.
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>>I'm not sure 'the only difference between them...' is entirely accurate... It would take some research to determine that though. From what I've read so far, the U.N. and the U.S. and the international community did not recognize (at least not as of the last document I found, but it was too old to be sure) Ossetia...Why? Has it changed? Does the international community recognize the independence of Ossetia?
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>Nope, it didn't.
>But we have a speak here "Who pays, he/she didn't choose the music" :-)
>So what UN and USA recognize as independent country is entirely USA point of view, didn't it?
>Is Russia recognize Kosovo as independent country? No.
>So can anybody tell me what is the difference between Ossietia and Kosovo?
>Both are regions populated with some minorities and they want their independence from BIG BROTHER :-)
>Both somewhere in the history was a part of other country (never be country by itself).
>But, here on Balkans USA didn't want strong countries and that is why Kosovo soon become independent.
>OK, OK I know we recognize Kosovo, but why without referendum? The last sociological research (before we recognize them) was that 85% of the Bulgarians didn't want our country to recognize Kosovo as independent country.
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> In Russia it is another question. What if the big brown bear becomes bigger :-) So all of these are some geopolitical calculations between both USA and Russia (hmm, when they didn't?) and now Russia has the excuse for what it did. If someone try to accuse them they just point to their own arguments for Kosovo.

It seems the U.S. position is fixed:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/georgia/2535881/Georgia-Gori-evacuated-as-fears-of-Russian-advance-into-Georgia-grow.html