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Originally Posted by galraen My real concerns, beyond the immediate repercussions are about where this is all taking us.

The smoke will have to clear before that is clarified, but it's certainly Russia "scored a point" - to use crude parlance - over the West. And that's not a good thing, Russia should not be given the impression they can do whatever the hell they want militarily any more than any other country ('cept the US, they're the biggest, so who's to stop 'em?)

Georgia will not enter NATO now, and its candidacy for a pipeline has taken a hit. If that was all Russia wanted, they've got it, but perhaps they will not stop there.

That said, it was a mistake of the US to do what they did in involving itself with Georgia and arming/training its military forces. The end to that folly is at least a positive footnote to this.