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You push out the local forces and then you create little states that are really russian states and try to get the world to recognize it. he's done that successfully in the past. nobody kicked up a fuss when he did it for abkhazia. >> was it particularly successful on the world stage, but got him what he needed to get. >> those territories, we say they're part of georgia. georgian troops cannot go into abkhazia or south ossetia. >> embarrassing in its own terms for georgia which is a rival state. >> he's done this in the past and had success. this would be number four doing the exact same model...

For georgia which is a rival state. >> he's done this in the past and had success. this would be number four doing the exact same model, but this time as you rightly say, they're preparing to go even further. instead of creating some false little state that they'd then have to go shop around the world and get the world's tiny island nations to recognize, tomorrow the duma is voting whether it will accept an outright annexation and that is a much more aggressive step. >> wow. in terms of what is going to happen next, obviously the crimean referendum, there's the vote in the duma then crimean re...