Remember in April when Bush wanted Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO, which France and Germany (supported by Italy, Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands and Hungary) effectively blocked from happening, because they forsaw trouble: both Ukraine and Georgia have disputed borders and break away provinces, which
would effectively drag NATO into a possible war, if say Russia got involved in a war with one of them.

Might be a bit conspiracy theory at this point, but a pattern is forming: Bush has been setting up these conflicts with Russia:
 
- NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia
- missile shield in Poland and Czech Republic
- talking points in support of Georgie and calling Russia the big bad wolf
- threatening to throw them out of international organizations
 
In my opinion you can also add the whole Iran thing to this, if the US attacks Iran, Russia will probably get dragged into to this, Russia has too many Iranian interests, including building of nuclear reactors and massive conventional arms sales.

BTW the whole Georgia thing, where the Georgian government was emboldened enough to start military action, especially with US training of Georgian forces, smells a lot like the Golf War, where Saddam was emboldened enough to invade Koeweit. Saddam was genuinely surprised when the US objected (don't forget Saddam was a US ally in the 80s) some say he got the go ahead from Washington, Washington would not object to the invasion.

Let's not forget it's summer, people are paying less attention, an ideal time to get new disasters rolling.