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This is such trash.
Simple facts: Russia was spying, they got caught, Georgia threw them out, Russia retaliated.
“Its every effort to build a broad cooperative security framework with Western nations has been thwarted.” Was written.
BS. At every juncture Russia has woprked against NATO, against the Western security policy. Now the antagonist is made into the victim.
In this article Russia in the Cold war is put on equal terms with the US. After all the US treatened the former Eastern states right? And the US ruled Western Europe like the Soviets did in the Czeck Rep, Hungary, and Poland right? What a bunch of garbage. Revisionist interpretation of history is used to make a bogus point in current events which are very wishfully interpreted reference Georgia.
Russians should not be bothered by this problem. I can promise them that they wont be asked whatever decision would be made
Georgia is a victim of Russian expansion.