5 Years After the 5-Day War, Everyone’s Learned Their Lessons

... major change in US policy would bring this issue back in focus. But so far events have been moving in the opposite direction. NATO’s extensive development, which masked the lack of a strategy in the 2000s, has given way to attempts to adapt the bloc ... ... connection with the Caucasus, and the bloc is no longer enthusiastic about the post-Soviet space as a whole. The five years after the South Ossetian war were a time of quest for Russia. The defeat of Georgia was seen as a major landmark and a psychological resurgence ...