In April 2008 at a NATO summit in Bucharest, NATO issued a statement that Georgia and Ukraine would at some time later join NATO. Putin also attended that conference and stated that Georgia and Ukraine was a red line, and having allowed NATO transit across Russia to and from Afghanistan (in their bogus 'hunt' for an already dead Osama bin Laden) expected some kind of respect.
So what did NATO do?
In the early morning of 8th August 2008, as the world anticipated the opening of the Olympic Games, Saakashvili decided to have some fun and shelled the civilians of South Ossetia as they slept quietly in their beds. This provoked Russia into a mini-war with Georgia, which led to some NATO politicians calling for Georgia to join NATO. But Saakashvili, who came to power during a Wall Street/CIA coup, failed in his trick to get Georgia into NATO, and he was ousted and indicted, but not before he was filmed anxiously munching his tie.
Six years later NATO unleashed neo-Nazis in a violent coup in Ukraine against a legitimately elected government after Yanukovich had decided to sign a deal with Russia not the EU/IMF. NATO installed their man Yats as PM and a suspected CIA agent as Minister of Finance. Since that coup the neo-Nazis burned 50 or so anti-Kiev protestors alive in Odessa, and killed over 7000 civilians in East Ukraine who oppose the Nazism and NATO links of the junta. The Rada is now making moves for a referendum on Ukraine joining NATO.
So forgive Putin for being pissed off, shall we say, after NATO betrayed his cooperation over Afghanistan and ran a neo-Nazi coup in Ukraine on Russia's doorstep.
But now to really take the piss and risk a war, Saakashvili, who has been hiding from justice in the USA, has been made governor of Odessa (where the neo-Nazis burned 50 anti-Kiev protestors alive).
Odessa is close to Crimea.
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