In the annals of 21st-century European diplomacy, few documents represent both the potential and the pitfalls of crisis negotiation as starkly as the Six-Point Agreement of August 2008. Brokered in a whirlwind of high-stakes diplomacy, the accord successfully ended the brief but brutal Russo-Georgian War, pulling the continent back from the brink of a wider conflict. However, as we analyze its legacy from the vantage point of 2025, the agreement is now understood not just as a ceasefire plan, but as a crucial, and perhaps cautionary, blueprint. It demonstrated Europe’s capacity for rapid diplomatic action while simultaneously exposing the profound challenges of enforcing an agreement when one party is determined to rewrite international borders by force.