Mika,
Well, let’s not *let* them play off of us then. . . . Russia has been occupying S. Ossetia and Abkhazhia for the past 15 years–so, take it. On the other hand, Georgia is not planning on entering NATO b/c NATO is plotting to dismember Russia (give me a break!). So, we have slightly different ways of doing things–let’s cooperate rather than fight about them–ultimately they are not trivial things, but they are not things it’s worth *fighting* about–like the US does not fight with Brazil or India, even though we don’t see everything the same way.