BSR-Russia: NATO expansion and US-Russian relations in the ‘near abroad’
First, the anniversary of the Five-Day August 2008 Georgian-Russian War passed with Georgia still deprived of 30 percent of its perceived territory––and Abkhazia and South Ossetiya set on a long road to real independence. This was the price Georgia paid for its own hubris and the West’s clumsy interference in a region it poorly understands. That interference was driven by the policy of NATO expansion, which militarized American and Western democracy-promotion efforts and piqued Russian resistance to them.
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