barbos
Contributor
Case in point is Georgia and now Azerbaijan.
Georgia is a tiny country government of which was at one time wholly owned by US. US paid for everything, the only conditions was to be shitty toward Russia up to a starting a war in South Ossetia.
Russia won that war and then applied economic measures which resulted in government which while was not friendly toward Russia but at least was not following crazy orders from Washington. They understood that economic system based on being shitty toward US enemies with which you have borders and shitload of trade is not sustainable.
Azerbaijan, on the other hand is currently in the state of broken relationship with Russia and learning the same lesson.
Georgia is a tiny country government of which was at one time wholly owned by US. US paid for everything, the only conditions was to be shitty toward Russia up to a starting a war in South Ossetia.
Russia won that war and then applied economic measures which resulted in government which while was not friendly toward Russia but at least was not following crazy orders from Washington. They understood that economic system based on being shitty toward US enemies with which you have borders and shitload of trade is not sustainable.
Azerbaijan, on the other hand is currently in the state of broken relationship with Russia and learning the same lesson.