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Robert Amsterdam writes that “the Western response to [the Russian-Georgian conflict] should be mercantile and specific. The West should attack the visas, bank accounts and financial transactions of those involved in the planning of this invasion, as well as those who intend to invest in these occupied territories.”
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It`s stupid idea.It`s not game ,nobody will win in it.
Russia didn`t arrest McDonalds,Pepsi factories after Kosovo
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