correct, but when they did break away, they took two provinces that didn’t really want to go. Now THOSE provinces have been trying to break away from Georgia and Georgia doesnt want them to. Russia wants them to come back though. Russia issues them Russian passports, grants them citizenship, etc. Georgia gets pissed and talks shit. Russian troops enter and occupy the two provinces.
Thats pretty much where we are now, or at least thats what I absorbed from NPR today…