Daniel Adams
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« on: August 11, 2008, 04:20:00 PM » |
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The Russians feel they "own" the countries surrounding them and that it cannot allow them to ally themselves with the West and NATO. Saakashvili's Georgia has been one of the most pro-Western ex-Soviet nations and Russia feels it must overthrow him before he joins NATO and goes out of their reach (as happened with Estonia).
These de facto independent nations propped up by the Russian military (as "peacekeepers") are the way Russia has tried to excerise pressure over their neighbor's governments. Those nations are actually Russian puppet states with little or no popular support and extremely corrupt and undemocratic governments.
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