Relations between NATO and Russia have cooled following the conflict in South Ossetia. George Friedman from Startfor - an online geopolitical intelligence publishe - joined RT to discuss the latest developments.

‘There should be an international investigation into how the war started in South Ossetia,' says Thomas de Waal, Caucasus editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.

'The period of frozen Russia-NATO relations will not last forever and the sides will come back to mutually beneficial relations,' believes Konstantin Kosachev, head of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.

NATO’s reaction to Russia's operation in Georgia was quite reserved in the circumstances, believes Irina Kobrinskaya, a political analyst from the Institute of World Economy and Foreign Affairs.

Aleksandr Pikayev, a political analyst from the Committee of Scientists for Global Security gave his views on NATO's foreign ministers' meeting.

NATO foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in South Ossetia. Editor-in-chief of the magazine "Russia in Global Affairs" Fyodor Lukyanov says that Russia won't be concerned about criticisms from Brussels.

The conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia has become a genuine issue in U.S. presidential campaigning. The situation is very welcome to Republican contender John McCain, says an American political journalist Alexander Cockburn.