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 | | As the humiliated parties to the conflicts, the Azeri and Georgian governments have threatened to use force to regain control over their breakaway regions, although there is no realistic ground for their success in any future military confrontation. |
 | | As neighboring countries, Armenia, Iran, Russia and Turkey would also be concerned about the spillover of the civil wars into their countries, which are linked to the Caucasus through a variety of ethnic, linguistic, geographical, historical, and religious ties. |
 | | Thus, economic interests, geographical realities, political considerations, security imperatives and natural ties could drag the five mentioned regional and non-regional countries into the Georgian and Azeri civil wars. |
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