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Europe has been faced with an unpredictable relationship with Russia since at least 2014. 2008 was the source of the current problem that happened when Russia reacted to the European and US plans of including Ukraine and Georgia in NATO and used military force to stop this, invading the provinces South-Ossietia and Abkhazia in Georgia and later recognising them as republics. The Western reaction then was one of discomfort, disbelief, and of mostly turning a blind eye.1
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Matlary, J.H., Heier, T. (2016). Introduction. In: Haaland Matlary, J., Heier, T. (eds) Ukraine and Beyond . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32530-9_1
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