WAR battle This was not a battle Russia had won before hand THis was a murder commited by georgia just to spite the pro russian rebels in Ossetia and Abkahzia The Georgians knew they would lose Ossetia and Abkazia Georgia knew that NATO membership would nt entitle them to keep the two areas they knew that NATO membership would nt keep Russian troops away They knew from the start they were not going to reclaim Osssetia for long They knew if they struck in Abkazia they would be wiped out in a few minutes they had no targets in reach So that s why they chose Ossetia This is not the battle for ossetia This was simply murder of ossetians for the sake of murdering Either georgia wanted to start WW III OR they just wanted to murder the seperatists out of a sick sort of pride out of a derranged sense of right and wrong That is it that is what this killing was about There was no war The russians merely came in as a police action as if following the script the Georgians had written that is there was no battle that Goergia can win this was purely sacrifice of its own merely to murder civilians call it murder or genocide please