The outrageous 5-day war is now over. Everyone lost: Georgia, Russia, the West, and the region. And you would be wrong to think that either the West or Russia was able to achieve anything through the war. Saakashvili's expectations were all subject to failure too, as he wished far too much and set hopes on the USA, which could hardly desire to fight for Georgia, whose location on the world map was unknown to an average American before the war broke out in South Ossetia.