International approval is irrelevant to morality.
The International body recognises the People's Republic of China but not Taiwan, for example. We recognise a mass abuser of human rights over (an admittedly flawed) democracy.
Why did the Kosovans, Croats and Bosnians aspirations for self determination warrant our support, and why should South Ossetian aspirations be subjugated to the requirements of the Georgians?
Why was Russia wrong to go in for a brief period (about a fortnight) after its peacekeepers were attacked, to defend the South Ossetians, and to repel illegal aggression (under the terms of the ceasefire agreements, Georgian armed forces were not permitted to enter South Ossetia), if the USA was right to invade Iraq on entirely spurious grounds (a cooked up WMD threat which did not exist)?
PP,
I have no problem at all in condemning the UK when it does the wrong thing.