[Moonbiter]

The ethnic hatred between Georgia and Russia is ancient, but escalated when Soviet invaded in 1921 and the subsequent butchery of hundreds of thousands by the Red Army. This led to a lot of Georgians joining up with the nazis during the second world war and committing unspeakable atrocities against the Russian civilians. This again led to Georgia being treated particularly bad in the years after the war, which led to it becoming a bit of a bandit state. By the end of the 80s, most of the drugs and contraband on the streets of Soviet cities were smuggled in via Georgia, and the Russians hated them even more for it.

I honestly don't see this conflict as a problem. The Georgians are suppressing a bunch of halfwits in a fleapit called South Ossetia, who like all idiot revolutionaries wants independence without a plan to sustain themselves. The Russians go in and beat the Georgians up when they misbehave. Just like the Yanks did in Kososvo, only Kosovo didn't border on Yankland... So Condoleeza "Gollum in a wig" Rice gets to rattle her teeth and make threatening noises, which seems to be all she ever does, and nobody cares as we get another bandit state to provide the streets of Europe with drugs and child prostitutes. End of story. Oh, apparently Georgia and South Ossetia was at war for most of the 90s. Did anybody know that? I didn't. That sure as hell didn't trigger the Third World War. If the Yanks haven't managed that yet, this won't.