On August 7, 2013, on the evening of the fifth anniversary of the war, Georgian President Mikheil Saakasvili, in a prerecorded interview on Georgia’s Rustavi-2 TV, told that he had met Putin in Moscow in February 2008 at an informal summit of the CIS. During the summit he told Putin that he was ready to say no to NATO in exchange for Russian help with the reintegration of the two breakaway territories. Saakashvili claimed “that ‘Putin did not even think for a minute” about his proposal. “[Putin] smiled and said, ‘We do not exchange your territories for your geopolitical orientation.. And it meant ‘we will chop off your territories anyway.’” Saakashvili asked him to talk about the growing tensions along the borders with South Ossetia, saying, “It could not be worse than now.” “That’s when he [Putin] looked at me and said: ‘And here you are very wrong. You will see that very soon it will be much, much, much worse.’” [234] . Anonymous
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In 2008, the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. At that meeting, Saakashvili made an offer to Russia in exchange for Russian support against NATO. He proposed that Georgia would agree to NATO membership if Russia backed Georgia’s territorial integrity and withdrew all its troops from both South Ossetia and Abkhazia. According to Saakashvili, Putin agreed to back his plan, but he also told Saakashvili “you will see that very soon it will be much, much, much worse.” The “much worse” that Putin was referring to was the large-scale Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008.

Source: Putins Wars: The Rise Of Russias New Imperialism

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