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Well i assume you mean the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, first off the Georgians started the war by attacking South Ossetia and attacking russian peacekeepers and Russia responded to this by sending in troops to protect the russian peacekeepers and also the citizens of South Ossetia, who mainly were all Russian citizens. (this has been proven by the UN and the EU) Also the war was under Medvedev's presidency so Putin held no power to make a military decision.

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