What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Putin’s Obsession With Ukraine
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Separatists in donetsk and ans have been fighting to join russia for years. When vadimir putten recognized the so called independence of these regions on monday, he was pulling out a page from a familiar play book. Russia has traditionally used these kind of frozen conflicts or breakaway regions as a way to expand 's influence in its region. It's what they did in georgia in two thousand eight there were these two breakaway regions there, and they basicly sort of goaded georgia into attacking them first, which then gave russia all the pretext it needed to launch an all out invasion. This time, i think russia was trying to kind
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