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What began on August 7 as a reckless act of aggression by Georgia to bludgeon the separatist province of South Ossetia into submission, quickly escalated to Russian military intervention in Georgia, and the conflict’s transformation into a proxy war between the U.S. and Moscow. What’s at stake in this conflict is not Georgia’s sovereignty [...]

The Russian military invasion of Georgia’s South Ossetia and Abkhazia’s provinces on Thursday, August 7 represented a brazen move to reclaim and incorporate both separatist regions into the Russia federation. Under the guise of coming to South Ossetia and Abkhazia aid from the Georgian government’s atrocities, Moscow quickly moved 10,000 troops into the regions by [...]