What does Georgia gain by reclaiming South Ossetia ?

Question

""Hundreds were reported dead in the worst outbreak of hostilities since the province won defacto independence in a war against Georgia that ended in 1992. Witnesses said the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali was devastated."""

The Ossetians have fought for their independance from Georgia, they have sided with Russia.

Question is should Georgia reclaim Ossetia or respect it's seperation from 1992 and leave them as their own country or province of Russia ????

Answer 1

Leave them alone! If the majority wants to be independent, then so be it. Why fight and destroy lives for no reason. Or is the a reason such as greed? Is there something profitable in that region?  

Answer 2

Sun Tzu said, "Land is the basis of the State."  

Answer 3

I cannot reply to questions about an area that I know absolutely nothing about.  I had to look up Ossetia on the map to learn where it is. I surely hope that there will not be a major conflict. Man seems to be fighting man all over the globe.  What a shame.

Answer 4

Suppose Texas managed to secede from the US.  

Suppose a few counties on their northern border didn't want to be part of the new "Lone Star Republic."  

Suppose Russia allied itself with the LSR, and tried to get it membership in some military alliance run largely by them.

Suppose fighting broke out between the LSR and those breakaway counties, and the US supported the counties militarily.

Would that be hard to understand?

And there's a pipeline going through there from Russia to Europe also.   In Asia I mean, not in Texas.

Don't ask me what they should do.  All I know is, I wouldn't trust those clowns in the white house with sharp objects, much less this kind of thing.

Answer 5

the little land that it has.  

Answer 6

Some strategic oil and gas pipelines (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline) flow through the South Ossetia region, it exports the oil and gas from Central Asia westwards towards Europe. If the Russians control these pipelines, or just threaten their continued operation, they will make the price of gas and oil rise in Europe (and thus on the world market). Hence more profits for Russian oil and gas producers.

Politically, this is part of Russia’s plan to punish Georgia for its increasingly pro-Western political orientation.