Russia's war in Georgia in 2008
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Ansco Go the Pi Inasite Georgian Leadership Have Resorted to Very Aggressive Actions
In two thousand and eight georgia was promised full nato membership, not then, but at an unspecified date and time in the future. There's no question that this all nato thing mad put in more annoid. At the same time, hostilities between the separatists in south ascetia and the georgian forces intensified. Again. Sakash fili called on his troops to cease fire, but the aggression continued. On the seventh of august, sakash villi snapped, sending 15 hundred troops into south acetia to try to suppress the separatists once and for all. The response was to send in the russian military forces, already amassed on the border, pushing
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