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Interesting question and commentary.
It is certainly true that it would be more than nice if US distributors/investors looked more closely at democratic states like Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia and the Baltics rather than providing the investment capital for the Chinese Red Army to expand sufficiently to absorb Taiwan with ease.
But, to say that Georgia is not so much different than our south cutting loose is to seriously understate both Georgia's and the Soviet Union's long and variously ugly and heroic histories, cultures and leaderships. Georgia is a democracy. Russia is returning to a Tsarist dictatorship and starting the action with Georgia, hard on the heels of the Chechens. Ukrainia watches the invasion with considerable alarm.
i would avoid the serious inaccuracies of implying a moral equivalency between either Russia v Georgia or Georgia v our slave-owning South. Moral equivalancies are rarely valid when drawn between invading irregular thugs and defenders of democracy, however fledgling.
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