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[ajva]

What the fuck is all this South Ossetia business? Why have I been totally blindsided by surprise at this situation? Is there anyone on my friends list who knows about the region and saw this coming? What the hell's going on?

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[reddragdiva]

Or, musical chairs: different regions are in different larger administrative areas which are in larger countries. While it's all the USSR, they can keep a bit of a lid on it; when the music stops and they say "Soviet Union over!", which country a given border region is in is all but arbitrary in the context of a few generations.