“This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.”

—  Condoleezza Rice

Press briefing http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2008/08/108194.htm, August 13, 2008.

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