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The raison d'être of the row between Russia and Georgia now seems obvious enough to the trained eye. Wading through a geopolitical swamp of post-Cold-War balkanization, this latest conflict was the result of a potent mixture of Russian nationalism, Ossetian-Abkhazian quest for identity and autonomy, and a Georgian (by proxy) exertion of American power. Buried below the laundry list of laudable explanations lies a more salient truth: This violence was chiefly, if not solely, spurred by the desire for mastery over natural resources.
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