Nike, the reason Georgia attacked Ossetia was because the separatists in that province were launching cross border raids into Georgia, probably under the protection of the Russian peacekeepers stationed in Ossetia. I found it suspicious that Russia was able to launch such a well armed and well organized attack so soon after the Georgians launched their punitive strikes. I think Georgia was set up and the separatists were acting under russian orders to launch those cross border attacks on Georgia. I think we are seeing the last of a free Georgia. I think if the russians succeed with this, other currently independent countries that were once part of the soviet bloc will start to feel the same pressure that Georgia has been feeling.