Big confusion and conflicting information are filling the newscasts globally regarding the situation existing in the area of S. Ossetia, the condition of the Georgia-Russia war armistice, the causes of the different actions from both sides but also the position and involvement of the international community, the E.U. and the U.S.A. in the whole affair.
Whenever there is confusion, grey area, difficulty in comprehending a situation because of the manner of its presentation, it is clear and obvious that there is an attempt to hide information for some reason. However, a simple objective analysis in which we take into consideration just facts (whatever ones we are told) and not their oral commentary (by the commentators and ‘experts’), just visual information and not their oral explanation, and from those visual pieces of information only those not showing events we can’t easily place or generalize from, we will see the true situation emerging, or at least a hint of it.
In this particular case we have a war fray which has caused victims of some number, possibly mostly Ossetians/ Russians and Georgians in the rear, which stopped without a definite conclusion (the Russians didn’t occupy some specific landmark but in the same time have not withdrawn troops), without lifting martial law and shut-out. Also we have the promotion of the sending of humanitarian aid by the USA (out of all the other ones sent by other countries) and the way of its being sent: with American troops which will also be responsible for the order in the land so that the distribution of the aid will be properly done.
That is to say, the only thing that is clear as far as fact and substantial moves is concerned is that a chronic situation was used, like the issue of Ossetia (and actually a problem originating in the 90s and after) so that the USA will be given a good excuse to appear legal in sensing occupation and control troops in an area they cannot accuse in the manner used in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Also, it gives the capacity to create a point of direct friction between the USA and Russia, which is fertile ground for more opportunities of advancement in the Russian and Balkan area.