07 August, 2009, 13:54
Rightardia comment: Bush gallivanted around Eastern Europe trying to get former Warsaw pact nations into NATO. He also wanted to install a US anti-ballistic system in Poland and the Czech Republic after he abrogated an ABM treaty with Russia.
Bush emboldened Georgia to attack Russian nationals in South Ossetia. The Russian response was swift and effectively ended Bush's aspirations in Eastern Europe to destabilize Russian security.
The war in South Ossetia resulted in a reconsideration of US policy towards the post-soviet space."America learnt that the level of involvement they would like to have in places like the South Caucasus and more broadly in the former Soviet Union will no longer be uninhibited and there will always be consequences," said Lincoln Mitchell, professor of international politics at Columbia University.
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