Balkan, Caucasus Nations Mourn Loss of Close Friend McCain

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Balkan, Caucasus Nations Mourn Loss of Close Friend McCain

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His August 2008 Wall Street Journal op-ed, "We Are All Georgians"—published upon the ceasefire that followed Russia's invasion of Georgia's breakaway enclave of Abkhazia—was a dire warning against Western diplomatic complacency.

"For anyone who thought that stark international aggression was a thing of the past, the last week must have come as a startling wake-up call," he said of the first major cross-border military invasion on European soil in nearly half a century. "The world has learned at great cost the price of allowing aggression against free nations to go unchecked."

Penned in the latter stages of his last failed presidential bid, the editorial proved prescient in Ukraine upon Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.

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