Georgia, supported by the USA, some of their allies, vassals and RusZion liberals, blamed Russian leadership for aggression.
The West ignores:
national minorities’ reluctance to live under Tbilisi’s power;
Tbilisi’s policy on population of Abkhazia and South Ossetia for many years.
However, the West was not consolidated in blaming Russia.
Russia accused the USA and their allies for “double standards”, using which they are trying to realize their non-public strategic geopolitical interests at the expense of peoples of S. Ossetia, Abkhazia and Russia. Also Russia “non-political correctly” publicly called Saakashvili as “American project”.
2.2. Local scale of examination
The essence of the matter in brief: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and some other territories were passed inside Soviet Georgia borders in 1920–1936 during elaborating the system of USSR administrative division.
This predetermines the failure of modern Georgian “elite” politics directed at the same time:
to Georgia’s exit from the USSR membership;
and to conservation of borders obtained during the USSR membership[11].
Conclusions, in brief:
Post-Soviet Russia (as the successor of the USSR) doesn't and can't bear the responsibility for all happened on August 8–12, 2008 in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia.
It is the historical fact, that Georgian Nazism[12] in relation to nations founded inside administrative borders of Georgia until disintegration of the USSR was stopped in early 1990-s and is deterring by Russia until present days. It is foolish to regret that Russia didn’t indulged Nazism policy of Georgia towards autonomous regions population — because Russia under Boris Yeltsin regime long time did, but not so consecutive and active as Tbilisi wanted.
If Saakashvili regime, not understanding the algorithmic of Georgia disintegration inertly going during last 20 years, got used to speeding-up this process — these are problems of Saakashvili and Georgian “elite” at all.
Besides that, these are problems of Saakashvili regime’s transatlantic sponsors and curators.
The last circumstance binds to move on global level examination of events at South Ossetia on August 8--12, 2008.
2.3. Global level of examination
Without support from USA post-Soviet Georgia would disintegrated long ago under influence of its internal algorithmic. But such variant doesn’t suit to USA now and before. Also the USA are not suited with preservation of territorial integrity of Russia and moreover — with reintegration processes on former-USSR territory; under certain conditions stipulated mostly by Russia's policy, some nations which never were members of Russian empire or the USSR, from both Europe and Asia may join in these processes.
From the beginning of 2nd half of XX century this is real political practice substantiated by USA' official documents. One of these documents — NSC 20/1 1948 “U.S. objectives with respect to Russia”[13]:
«…we are entirely within our own rights, and need feel no sense of guilt, in working for the destruction of concepts inconsistent with world peace and stability and for their replacement by ones of tolerance and international collaboration. It is not our business to calculate the internal developments to which the adoption of such concepts might lead in another country, nor need we feel that we have any responsibility for those developments.… (Printed in bold while quoting by us: this — is declaration of amorality in US' policy, which [i.e. amorality] is not inexcusable for true democracy).»
Till today the U.S. politics moves in channel of this 60-year old directive and subsequent documents, which adapt its principles to changing historical conditions. This is the course to complete world dominion of the USA, grounds for which found its expression in the book by Zbignev Brzezinski “The Grand Chessboard. American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives”[14].
According to global policy principles, which USA executes after 1945, for USA bosses Georgia is, first of all, the position for “rapid deployment forces” and elements of USA global military infrastructure deployment. But USA can’t use this region, until there are Russian troops on Georgian territory, inherited from the USSR.
In this part petty-parasitic interests of Georgian “elite” on suppression of Georgian national minorities “separatism” and Russian peacemaking contingent withdrawal out of Georgia's borders coincide with USA' interests.
“Blitzkrieg”, to which USA supposedly trained Georgian Army, hasn’t achieved its goals ((1) to change administrations in “insurgent regions”; or (2) to involve Russia into a protracted war). I.e. USA enticed Saakashvili to the first variant, but really prepared the second variant.
Nor the first, nor the second really happened.
On the one hand it displeases USA and stirs up Saakashvili’s embarrassment close to psychic frustration, and on the other hand, military-political Russia’s victory provokes enthusiasm of those society sections both in Russia and abroad, which, if put it mildly, have little liking of the USA for its politics mendacity and dissimulation.
Saakashvili himself and his regime at present time are exclusively Georgian internal problems depended on that post-Soviet Georgia has no true sovereignty; and there are Georgians who have to solve these problems, but not at the expense of Ossetians, Abkhazians or Russians.
Moreover, there is an opinion that USA intended to use Georgian territory in planned aggression against Iran. So Saakashvili’s “spontaneous activity” in assault to South Ossetia (which provoked Russian Army involving in conflict) frustrated this plan and caused hysterics of Bush administration representatives[15]. In this case, not American military head-quarters’ but their bosses’ “left hand doesn’t know what their right hand is doing”:
some of them design war on Iran with Georgian participation and with Ukrainian air defence subunits for defending objectives at Georgian territory,