Whatever precedent the west may have set by recognising Kosovo, Georgia’s breakaway states are only a mountain range away from Russia’s own separatist troublespots. What’s good for South Caucasus surely has to be good for them too. If Abkhazia or South Ossetia are nation states, then why not Chechnya?
The Chechnya situation remains ’sporadically unresolved‘. The WSJ insinuates the same question.
For Ms. Kesayeva, watching events in neighboring Georgia unfold is a bad case of déjà vu. She sees disturbing parallels between Russia’s handling of Beslan and its small victorious war against Georgia. As in Beslan, she says the Kremlin has released misinformation to bolster its cause, establishing an official narrative that it is “unpatriotic” to question.
"Unpatriotic"? Lies? No! Where have I heard that before? Oh, wait. Stateside it’s unpatriotic to question lies (yellowcake?) that get us into war.
Birds of a feather.