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Title: Taunting the Bear
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URL Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/w ... =5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg
Published: Aug 9, 2008
Author: JAMES TRAUB
Post Date: 2008-08-11 15:16:19 by wudidiz
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Keywords: WWIII, Russia, Georgia
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Taunting the Bear

By JAMES TRAUB
Published: August 9, 2008

The hostilities between Russia and Georgia that erupted on Friday over the breakaway province of South Ossetia look, in retrospect, almost absurdly over-determined. For years, the Russians have claimed that Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been preparing to retake the disputed regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and have warned that they would use force to block such a bid. Mr. Saakashvili, for his part, describes today’s Russia as a belligerent power ruthlessly pressing at its borders, implacably hostile to democratic neighbors like Georgia and Ukraine. He has thrown in his lot with the West, and has campaigned ardently for membership in NATO. Vladimir V. Putin, Russia’s former president and current prime minister, has said Russia could never accept a NATO presence in the Caucasus...

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