Russia has moved into Georgia reflexively and their invariable intransigence on the matter will potentially give them a bargaining position that goes beyond Georgian sovereignty. Russia’s geography and historical uncertainty of its boundaries has ultimately driven them south into warmer climes and seaports. It is through this area and to Tehran that they have most exerted their reaching influence. Russia has solely propped up Tehran and through them, kept the Middle East in a state of near war. One by one nations will have to decide whom they believe, those who promulgate the enlightened principles of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law, or inveigled paranoiac dreams of Left wing conspiracy mongers who are certain that corporate business has a plan for a global fascist state.