The Second War on Georgia

The Russians attacked the small worthless country beneath them over a pipeline. What if it happened again? I am pretty sure that the United States could get involved and it could be a new war.
 
Your right the war was just over a pipeline. It doesn't matter that the Georgians were ethnically cleansing the South Ossetians, because the Russians are always the bad guys and the Georgian: poor little good guys who have never done anybody any harm.
 
This should be in Future History but if the war started up again there are 4 scenarios I can see happening:

1: The UN and other countries quickly negotiate another ceasefire and the second war ends.
2: The Russians do a blitzkrieg and America doesn't do anything and Georgia is completly conquered
3: America does send aid,Georgia fights off the Russians and Russia suffers a bloody second Chechnya/Afgahnistan.
4: America sends aid but Russia gets angry and declares war on the US starting World War 3.
 
Maybe some US ("advisors" and technicians) and Russian troops get in a firefight and it goes on from there. Unfortuneately such things happen. :(

Extremely unlikely but maybe it happens like in that Cuban Missile Crisis War TL where the Khrushchev gets assassinated and no one knows what the hell is going on and so a war breaks out. But again extremely unlikely as both sides will do anything in their power to stop a war from happening.
 
This should be in ASB as, believe it or not, it was Georgia who attacked Russian peacekeeping force, which had been in region for 16 years according to UN-brokered agreement (sighed by, among others, Georgia).
 
I remember Matthew Chances* report when he drove around the Georgian countryside and saw what the different sides where doing. It was just at the end of the war and I belive it was the first time a fairly independent observer reported from the war. So how can people be so sure about things happening days earlier and where the observers are as bised as they get?

I have my guesses on what happened (search Russia vs Georgia) and belive there is some independent groups examining things but I suspect we will have as much concensus in a hundred years about the facts as we have about the Armenian Genocide today.

This is what BBC says:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7549736.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7571096.stm

Money quote: "
In a region where ancient feuds shape current events, half-truths from one conflict all too quickly become the myths that fuel the next cycle of violence.

*IMHO one of the great pices of journalism this year, I hope he gets an award
 
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