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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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Assuming you think the civil war was about slavery... Russia doesn't consider Georgia a country just like the north not recognizing the south's right to leave the union. Religion and morals are excuses for war, while power and wealth are always the real reason for them breaking out.
Personally I think the northerners were afraid they'ed get stuck wearing scratchy wool shirts cause we were cutting off the cotton supply, plus we had all the sugar cane so they were jonesing for a sugar fix.
