Posted AT 8:38 AM EST on 20/08/08
The party's over for Europe: The bear is back
South Ossetia may be very small, but it has become the scene of an event of colossal proportions: the return of Great Power politics, in which tanks are the deciding factor, not "soft power," let alone international legitimacy.
This huge change follows inevitably from Russia's regression to its own historic version of empire, which existed under the czars and was revived by Stalin.
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