The History of 'Putin's Wars'
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Russian Foreign Intervention in the Middle East
Georgia was seen as a prize case study for Russian foreign intervention. Russia saw it as some kind of tacit alliance between Michaela Sakashvili and the Americans, says Peter Bergen. The Russians were caught on the hop by when it actually happened in that Putin himself,. who at this time was technically prime minister, was in China. It gave them the excuse that they didn't start this war. They went in precisely because those nasty Georgian started it.
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