TreasureSeeker wrote:
America will only be involved as a peace negotiator between both sides.
The issue of South Ossetia had been heating up between Russia and Georgia in recent months, so I'm not so surprised that military action has been taken, though I don't think it will turn into a full-scale war. Nobody was the prime aggressor here, all sides played some role in this result, and all sides could have done things differently that might have prevented this. We can only hope that it doesn't any get worse and that peace negotiations have some success.
It already has escalated into a war. There is open fighting between Soviet and Georgian troops, the Ossetian capital has been bombed into ruin, hospitals, villages and mant other places in Ossetia have undergone shelling. What for you classifies as "full-scale war" if this doesn't? I'd say that 1500 dead in the first days fighting clarifies that Georgia and Ossetia/Russia are at war.
The Georgians are calling for US aid, if the US get involved i would not be surprised to see Russia calling on it's allies and possibly see Chinese intervention.
Certainly going to be an interesting few months.
