Can diplomacy solve the crisis in the Caucasus? What future do you see for the region?? Russia in isolation??

Question

The British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has gone to the Ukraine, to try to assemble what he's called a coalition against Russian "aggression" in Georgia.

Can Western diplomacy bring peace to the region?

The trip comes a day after Russia's formal recognition of the of the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Western leaders condemned the move, and Georgia said it amounted to annexation of the two regions. Ukraine's President said the conflict between Georgia and Russia had exposed serious weaknesses in the powers of international bodies.

Fighting between Russia and Georgia began on 7 August after the Georgian military tried to retake its Russian-backed breakaway province of South Ossetia by force. Russia launched a counter-attack.

The conflict ended with the ejection of Georgian troops from both South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Can international bodies solve this crisis?

What can Western-backed diplomacy achieve in the region?

Are you from South Ossetia or Abkhazia?

What future do you see for the region?

Is Russia heading for isolation?

Answer 1

The Russian empire is coming back. All the news reports of the weak, poor underequiped, undernourished, useless Russian military must be thrown out, they were fictitious stories. Russia will get more of our attention from now on.

Answer 2

1. Yes

2. Russian domination of events

3.Don't make me laugh, Russia isolated by NATO signatories...HA

4. I'm not from there, just a fat white guy