Cika jumla mai zuwa:
A lokacin rikicin 2008 tsakanin Rasha da Georgia, Chiesa ya bayyana cewa "Rasha ta yi daidai abin da ya kamata a yi". Ya kara da cewa "Ina ganin Turai tana da alhakin wannan yakin, ta hanyar goyon bayan shugaban kasar Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili da kuma ikirarinsa a kan Kudancin Ossetia da Abkhazia". Dangane da ɗaukar hoto na kafofin watsa labarai game da yaƙin, Chiesa ya bayyana cewa "bayanan da kafofin watsa labarai suka bayar abin kunya ne ga Yammacin duniya. Tashoshin labarai na Yammacin duniya sun nuna hotuna da kuma labarai da suka shafi siyasa. Wasu daga cikinsu sun yi iƙirarin cewa Rasha tana son cin Georgia, ko da yake babu wata hujja da ta goyi bayan wannan hujja. An nuna Mikheil Saakashvili a matsayin mara kyau mara kyau na Big Bad Putin kuma sau da yawa ba a nuna hotunan Tskhinvali da bama-bamai suka lalata ba. Wannan shi ne mafi munin rahoto da na taba gani tun bayan yakin Iraki".