souht ossetian is a breakaway region of georgia

back in the early 90's they broke away and as part of the cease-fire russia sent in peacekeepers to keep the two sides from violating that. between then and now russia has been accused of providing training and arms to the seperatist side and also it has given russian citizenship to the majority of the population in the region

over the last week the seperatists and georgia have both traded fire. georgia finally went in to reclaim the territory and russia started pouring troops over the border as well as allowing resistance fighters from russian held territories to enter south ossetian.

as peacekeepers you arent allowed to take sides nor are you really supposed to be on the offensive. you are a defensive force intended t okeep both sides from fighitng. not provide support to one side over the other.

russia has so far bombed a seaport city that is a major oil hub, its also attacked military targets as well as international airport outside of the georgian capitol. also it destroyed a city in georgia where georgian troops were massing in support of their fellows already fighting. these are not actions of peacekeepers.

russia has previously this year violated georgian airspace as well as shot down unmanned drones of georgian forces. it IS NOT acting as a peacekeeping force but rather an aggressor.

not to mention the georgian government is asking for a cease-fire and claims it has sent notice to the russians, russia is denying this and continues to act aggresively. as well as all along it denied it was involved until it was obvious they were there. the second georgia asked for a cease-fire and russia continued to attack ... they became an aggressor not a peacekeeper