Russia recognizes breakaway Georgian regions but says US is causing tension

[vlad321]

^ I'm taking Russia's side on this, but I also realize that what it's doing is on the level of what the US does, go to a country when they shouldn't be and fuck up everything, and Russia is as much at fault at that as is the US. Some people just tend to focus on the US a lot more. In fact throughout history there are dozens of nations, empires, whatever, that have done this, it's just a fact of life. Double standards, yes, but that doesn't excuse what you are doing and it doesn't make you any better than them.

I agree that boycotting Russia will be about as smart as the US's plan to boycott the EU back in the day when the EU didn't allow GM foods. Russia has its oil and it has what it needs to sustain itself. China doesn't give a shit about what the western countries and the US do so it will still deal with Russia, and all in all the western countries will probably end up suffering when their gas-dependent infrastructures find themselves without Russian oil in the market.