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Peter Zeihan Returns: China, Ukraine, and What Comes Next

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The Russians Invading Georgia

If there was a time to stop the Russians from this process and try to force them into negotiations over a non-Soviet future in which we all get along, it would have been 2004. We were dependent upon the Russians to supply our forces in Afghanistan. And because we were involved in Iraq, we had absolutely no diplomatic and especially military bandwidth. So the Russians invaded Georgia while Putin was in a box at the Olympics with George Bush underline that there was nothing that he could do.

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