Russia took Georgia with a bank, not a tank

In September 2008, in the woods outside the occupied Georgian town of Kareli, the fighters under my command demanded to see my documents. They refused to believe that a sitting member of parliament and former chief of the military police was fighting beside them as an ordinary rifleman. I produced my parliamentary credentials. They passed the card from hand to hand in silence.Their disbelief has stayed with me for 18 years, not because they doubted who I was, but because, years later, I watched my entire nation believe something far less believable. Recommended Stories America has the chips. Here’s what it’s missing in race with China Trump won’t renew trade deal with Mexico and Canada.

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