U.S. plans to extend NATO to Russia’s doorstep are one of the main reasons behind American involvement in the conflict in Georgia, according to New York-based anthropologist Brendan Cooney.

Euro MPs were victims of the information war between Russia and Georgia, says Parliament member Tatyana Zhdanok - co-chairperson of the party 'For Human Rights in United Latvia'.

Russia could respond to the US-Polish missile treaty by moving more elements of its military infrastructure to Kaliningrad, suggests political analyst Aleksandr Nikitin.

According to the latest opinion polls, the majority of Poles are in favour of the deployment of American AMD on their soil. To some extent this is due to recent events in Georgia, says the Vice-Chairman of the Polish Parliament, Tadeusz Iwinski.

An observer from the Council of Europe, Mathias Ershi, who's currently drafting a report on the Georgia – South Ossetia conflict, says the devastated area cannot be left without peacekeepers for many years to come.

The Patriot missile defence system obtained by Poland as part of the deal to take ten missile interceptors, are only used against short-range ballistic missiles, so it all looks very suspicious, says Kirill Bessonov, a journalist with the Moscow News newspaper, in an interview with RT.

Russia's actions in South Ossetia were a response to a brutal assault by Georgian forces against Russian citizens, says Jeffrey Steinberg, senior editor of "Executive Intelligence Review” magazine.