Jonathan Littell has covered Russian wars in Chechnya, Georgia, and now in Ukraine. The French-American journalist says the West's failure after those earlier conflicts to take harsher measures signaled to the Kremlin it could do "anything it wanted in their backyard without anyone really caring."
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Fifteen years since the start of the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia, many Georgian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine against Russian forces. For many of them and for those who lost their lives Russia's invasion is part of their own "unfinished battle."