Now the Russians have to live with only the bit of land that has been left to them after the collapse of the Sovietunion (which is only more than any other country in the world has, oh my)...with Moscow's recognition of the two provinces as souvereign states, make it clear that they do not intend to leave. All perfectly understandable.
Is it actually known that, when Germany embarked on a similar course of action in 1939, this caused the Second World War? (Naturally there were differences, two of them being that the minorities in question back then
were ethnical Germans, while South Ossetians and Abchasians are
not ethnical Russians, another being that back then Russia aka the Sovietunion supported the German invasion after having made a deal that it would get the eastern half of invaded Poland)...
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