[Jan_Sobieski]

Ignore Russians, and they'll take everything they can get away with. History is what it is.

So Russia took ALL of Georgia in 2008 and not just the Ethnic Russian section that were being attacked by Georgia?

[Jumper]

Reminds me of the USA in Grenada, Panama, Ukraine....

[Chad C. Mulligan]

So Russia took ALL of Georgia in 2008.....

Perhaps because in 2008 the rest of Georgia was strongly pro-Western and has had good relations with NATO going back to 1992?

https://georgiaembassyusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Chronology-of-major-events-in-Georgia-NATO-Cooperation.pdf