Flutterby™! : Georgia and Kosovo

I've been trying to wrap my head around the struggles currently happening between Russia and Georgia over the provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Leo had a link to Stratfor: Georgia and Kosovo: A Single Intertwined Crisis, which describes how the precedents set up by NATO and the United States in dealing with Kosovo are what Russia is looking towards for guidance in dealing with Georgia. Well worth reading.