Dans un article intitulé "Putin Walks into a Trap" de Mike Whitney, publié sur le site états-unien http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20508.htm , l’auteur formule l’hypothèse que l’aggression de la population ossète par les forces armées géorgiennes est une manoeuvre très vraisemblablement télécommandée par Dick Cheney afin d’inciter la Russie à tomber dans un piège semblable à celui dans lequel était tombé l’Union soviétique lors de son invasion et de son occupation de l’Afghanistan en 1979 et que lui avait tendu Zbigniew Brzezinski. Le but d’une telle opération ? Enliser la Russie dans un bourbier et l’empêcher par là de contrôler les oléoducs du basin de la mer Caspienne, en même temps que distraire le monde du déploiement actuel de forces navales états-unienne et européenne à proximité des eaux territoriales de l’Iran.

Voici un extrait de cet article :

"Russia deployed its tanks and troops to South Ossetia to save the lives of civilians and to reestablish the peace. Period. It has no interest in annexing the former-Soviet country or in expanding its present borders. Now that the Georgian army has been routed, Russian president Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin have expressed a willingness to settle the dispute through normal diplomatic channels at the United Nations. Neither leader is under any illusions about Washington’s involvement in the hostilities. They know that Georgian President Mikail Saakashvili is an American stooge who came to power in a CIA-backed coup, the so-called "Rose Revolution", and would never order a major military operation without explicit instructions from his White House puppetmasters. Most likely, the orders to invade came directly from the office of the Vice President, Dick Cheney.

The Georgian army had no chance of winning a war with Russia or any intention of occupying the territory they captured. The real aim was to lure the Russian army into a trap. US planners hope to do what they did so skillfully in Afghanistan ; lure their Russian prey into a long and bloody Chechnya-type fiasco that will pit their Russia troops against guerrilla forces armed and trained by US military and intelligence agencies. The war will be waged in the name of liberating Georgia from Russian imperialism and stopping Putin from achieving his alleged ambition to control critical western-owned pipelines around the Caspian Basin. Much of this "think tank" generated narrative has already appeared in the mainstream media or been articulated by American political elites. Meanwhile, the fighting in the Caucasus has diverted attention from the massive US naval armada that is presently sailing towards the Persian Gulf for the long-anticipated confrontation with Iran."

Dans l’optique diabolique d’un gangster tel que Cheney, un scénario de ce genre est probablement tout à fait concevable. Mais ce que Whitney oublie, c’est que la Russie semble avoir une capacité bien plus developpée d’admettre et d’apprendre de ses erreurs passées que les Etats-Unis, comme le démontre si éloquemment le fait qu’elle décida de dissoudre l’Union soviétique.