now respond strongly to he has done he has done some things that are sort of like this. obviously in south ossetia and abkasia. he has essentially extended the russian empire in starts and bits in different places. and the world was very disapproving, in particular, of what he did in georgia. but, you know what, georgian troops were still in south osettia when the world came to sochi and they hosted the olympics. he endured that disapproval. why what would have to happen differently now for him not to be able to endure the disapproval on this arguably larger incursion? first of all, i think the georgia situations were somewhat different. these were frozen conflicts. those provinces were not within georgian control at the time of the dissolution cry mimea was slightly equivalent to sort of northern iraq in terms of having its own