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Originally Posted by haku
Georgians were also a minority in the USSR, and caucasian minorities have never been treated very nicely by Moscow. Moscow's sudden interest in Ossetian people is only motivated by geostrategy, not the well being of a minority.
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Nobody said that Russia is any better! The whole Caucasian situation was always very complex and neither Russia nor Georgia are very 'loved' by the minorities. Interesting only, that both Abchasia and S. Ossetia want more to be in Russia's hands than in Georgia's.
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Originally Posted by haku
Blaming a foreign policy decision on Brussels is complete nonsense, the EU has no foreign policy, there is no "foreign policy commissioner". ...
So you can blame Paris, Berlin, London or any other government whose foreign policy decissions over South Ossetia makes you angry, but blaming Brussels for something over which it has absolutely no control whatsoever is pure irrational euro bashing.
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There goes quite a lot of money from Brussels to Tbilisi, money from EU citizens, for which Saakashvili found thankful words regularly. Both USA and EU countries give much military support to Georgia, prepare NATO membership and do everything to maintain integrity in a country that is hopelessly corrupt and is most likely to fall completely apart if no foreign country does interfere.
If EU would have put pressure on the government to comply with international standards of treating minorities there would have been chances for peace in that region. But the lobbyists sitting around in Brussels don't want to wait, they want their profit NOW. Foreign policy is coordinated in the EU, though there is not always agreement, like in the Iraq-war. Don't belittle the power of Brussels in foreign affairs, they can be quite effective if there is consense of the most powerful nations.
Finally, it's not 'pure irrational euro bashing', it 's only the realization, that EU politics in general is based on profit and moral authority is only seen if it doesn't cost.