> they also stopped short of entering tbilisi in 2008, despite facing zero obstacles to doing that. it just wasn't part of their goals, and this means a stop to the operation uhh, have you not read ariel cohens post at the atlantic council? > in 2008, the russians intended to remove the saakashvili regime and take tbilisi. they failed to do so, because the leaders of poland, the baltic states, and ukraine gathered in tbilisi, and because the europeans and united states pushed moscow to stop the aggression.
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