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Tue 08 Aug 2008Ossetia ordeal ill-served by cold war logic
Deep ethnic tensions, an impetuous Georgia and Russian fears all played a part in Ossetia conflict, writes GERARD TOAL
COLD WAR geopolitics, it appears, is back. The bloody fighting over the last week in South Ossetia between the Russian Federation and the state of Georgia, an aspirant member of Nato supported by the Bush administration, has revived memories of cold war proxy battles in strategic locations.
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