The Georgian government cannot possibly be responding to attacks from anyone else if they are the ones who fired FIRST.

I'm definitely not the one on this thread who can't read.


First means nobody did it before the Georgians did it. They did it first, and everybody else did it after. First means first... not second, or third, which is what it would be if they were firing in response to someone else (who are the ones who would have been first had the Georgians been firing in response.

Once again, according to the peacekeeping forces, Georgia fired first. Not second, not in response to someone else.