Everyone is missing the big picture. This is not about oil or Iran or even Georgia. This is about all of Central Asia.

For the last 15 years, Georgia and Central Asia has been building a rail and road system that would connect Central Asia to the West bypassing Russia and allowing Central Asian economy to be independent of Russia. Google TRACECE, the 14 nation project doing this since 1993. This was a transportation link from Romania to Georgia to Azerbijian, across the Caspian to Turkmenistan and then the rest of Centeral Asia.

By taking out Georgia, Russia has cut off this route entirely. All transportation routes now must go through Russia. This basically means Russia controls Central Asia’s economies again. Russia can now methodically reclaim its lost Central Asian empire without any infererence from the West.