Russia sent tanks and troops to South Ossetia, after Georgia launched a major military offensive to reclaim the breakaway republic. This was the culmination of months of escalation by both sides. Russia sees the events in South Ossetia in the larger context of a widening confrontation with the West, and in particular the United States.
Russia is seeking this confrontation, to provide an appropriate context for a resumption of spending on military hardware, which ended with the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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