The West needs to look to its interests

James Sherr, acknowledged expert in post-Soviet developments and head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, writes on the war in the Caucasus and what it implies for other former Soviet republics, NATO and the West. He has been warning about Russia's intentions for some time.

Of course, with the authoritarian regimes on the attack, the notion of splitting the Western alliance and undermining the Western alliance through the determined creation of the EU's common foreign policy becomes even more dangerous.