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A crisis with Russia is bad for Europe and that’s not arguable. As for the NATO-Russia relationships, I doubt that it matters more than other organisations like UN. Why should France, Germany and Italy want to take any offensive actions against Russia?

For the US, the stakes are high. It lost the battle of the Caucasus and I’m not quite sure it won the propaganda war. In the US the propaganda against Russia is crystal clear if you read journals while it’s quite unclear if you hear correspondence from S. Ossettia.

The public opinion in Greece and Italy is against the US for the Georgia matter. The governments, wisely enough, don’t want to brick relationships with US, but most European countries wont provoke Russia either. They are just doing everything possible to keep the tension down.