It seems like the real issue is whether or not South Ossetia was indeed recognized by the international community as an independent country - if not then there was never any “invasion” in the first place.
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Georgia's Shevardnadze and Russia's Yeltsin signed 1992 Sochi agreement recognizing South Ossetian autonomy with international (e.g., Swiss) observers brought in to observe border. Neutrals saw at 11:30 pm on 8/7/2008 a Georgian tank invasion of South Ossetia, starting the war.
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Georgians are generally hotheaded, though not terribly irrational. My sense from American deep staters like Robert Gates is that Putin wanted to punish Georgia for the BTC pipeline, and kept egging on Saakashvili until he launched the invasion. Bush in 2008 told Putin that...
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Saakashvili is hotblooded. Putin said he was too. Bush said, "No, Vlad, you're coldblooded." What's notable is that Stalin coldly played everyone into starting the Korean War. Stalin really wasn't all that Georgian at heart: far too cold.
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Was Beria not Georgian either? Georgians were highly overrepresented in the NKVD
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Beria was a hothead with much joie de vivre, even if much of that entailed slaughtering people. If he had won the power struggle in 1953, he probably would've ditched much of the hardline Bolshevism in favor of a Latin American-style dictatorship.
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Was that the official start of WWG?
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