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Charles Krauthammer
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The Washington Post
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August 22, 2008
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103109.html
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"In Soviet days, Russia didn't care because it was at the center of a self-enclosed autarkic system that included 15 Soviet republics, all of Eastern Europe and a collection of overseas colonies. With these all gone, post-Soviet Russia is infinitely more dependent on the international system. It has political/economic pressure points. Yet with Georgia occupied, its infrastructure stripped and its capital under siege, NATO pushed not one of them."
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This item argues for the position Russia should be removed from the G8 on the topic 2008 South Ossetia war.
