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For me, the moment that sums up John McCain’s worldview, both what made it admirable and made it dangerous, was his “We are all Georgians” speech. Almost exactly 10 years ago, on Aug. 12, 2008, McCain, a longtime backer of what he called that “brave little nation” in the Caucasus and a personal friend of its pro-Western leader Mikheil Saakashvili, addressed a rally for his presidential campaign in York, Pennsylvania. It was just after Russian troops had entered undisputed Georgian territory from the breakaway enclave of Abkhazia, turning what had been an increasingly tense border clash into the sort of full-scale international land invasion not seen in Europe in decades. McCain told the crowd:

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