5 Years After the 5-Day War, Everyone’s Learned Their Lessons

... issue back in focus. But so far events have been moving in the opposite direction. NATO’s extensive development, which masked the lack of a strategy in the 2000s... ... longer enthusiastic about the post-Soviet space as a whole. The five years after the South Ossetian war were a time of quest for Russia. The defeat of Georgia was seen as... ... Russia’s most controversial postwar move was the recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In the five years since, Russia has not convinced any major...