Ein Artikel des Moskauer Korrespondenten Clifford J. Levy in der IHT bestätigt die Informationen von "Rußland Aktuell" und übrigens auch die Einschätzung von Vladimir Socor, daß eines der Ziele Rußlands der Sturz von Saakaschwili sei.

Allerdings schreibt auch Levy wieder:

Zitat von Clifford J. Levy

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The war started late on Aug. 7 when Saakashvili ordered his small, U.S.-trained military to attack and seize Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, a tiny mountainous region on the southern face of the Caucasus Ridge. The region has been out of Georgia's control, and under Russian support, since a brief war in the 1990s.

Saakashvili's order, which he has said was necessary to prevent a Russian assault, turned into a disaster that threatened the Georgian state. Russian planes, rockets and artillery pounded Georgian positions, while armored units routed Georgian forces and swept into several principal cities.

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Zitat von Clifford J. Levy

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The Russian leadership has also expressed more confidence in recent days that it is getting across its view that it attacked Georgia two weeks ago only in response to an unprovoked assault by the Georgian military on civilians in South Ossetia.

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