Putin defiant on Caucasus troops

Vladimir Putin refuses to consult western European countries, and Georgia, about how many troops should be put into the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Apart of the agreement between Russia and Georgia, Russian troops would return to pre-conflict positions. This reminded me of The Iliad when Achilles asked the seer why Apollo sent a plague. Achilles didn’t consider the actions of telling Agamemnon that he had to give up his war prize. Putin is doing the exact same thing, by not considering what the other countries think.

"Putin defiant on Caucasus troops." BBC News9.21.(2008) 21 Sept. 2008