Eighty-nine years ago—January 29, 1920—the British cabinet rejected a plan to support the independence of Georgia and Azerbaijan and to secure the Black Sea to Caspian Sea corridor. The geopolitical effect was to cede control of the Eurasian heartland to the Soviet Union for seven decades. Reflection upon this anniversary provides historical perspective to analysis of Russia’s August 2008 war on Georgia.
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