Mockery
Mr. Medvedev’s claim of a Georgian genocide, after his own government published casualty figures of 200 or so, is deliberately preposterous; he is mocking the very idea of humanitarian intervention [bold mine-DL]. ~The Washington Post
Actually, the war in Kosovo already did that in making a mockery of the idea, which is why Moscow can use the same language and methods to dress up its power projection just as NATO did. Medvedev has simply applied the same kind of nonsense to another situation.
P.S. What does NAFTA have to do with any of this?
At WaPo and other Western news outlets they still think U.S. intervention in 1999 prevented genocide. When it comes to Kosovo the media are still stuck on William Cohen’s 100,000 dead. They never bothered following up on that after the bombs stopped falling in Serbia. So Medvedev’s mockery of U.S. claims in Kosovo went right passed just about everyone in the U.S. and even Europe.