What are the odds that if Georgia had given South Ossetia the independence they wanted, Russia would be fighting a war in North Ossetia trying to quash an independence movement there?
In 1803 Napoleon sold large tracts of land to the US. His reasoning was that if the US grew stronger, the Britain would eventually seize to be a great empire. 153 years later his actions bore fruit.
We have become people without the ability to see beyond the small box of near-term results. Thankfully, our enemies are like that, too. Had the Azeris given Karabakh to Armenia in 1988, they would probably have Karabakh and half of Armenia to themselves by now.
In 1803 Napoleon sold large tracts of land to the US. His reasoning was that if the US grew stronger, the Britain would eventually seize to be a great empire. 153 years later his actions bore fruit.
We have become people without the ability to see beyond the small box of near-term results. Thankfully, our enemies are like that, too. Had the Azeris given Karabakh to Armenia in 1988, they would probably have Karabakh and half of Armenia to themselves by now.
unfortunately it is also true about the border with Turkey. Have they opened it, the other half of Armenian population which is not in Moscow would be successful merchants in Istanbul.
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