@JFSanders:
I hope so!

And both the Russians and the Iranians have a lot to fear from Trans-Turkic nationalism. Azeris comprise something like 24% of the Iranian population and Azeris in Iran held a series of huge demonstrations in favor of autonomy in recent years.

Iranian Azeris vacation in Azerbaijan so they can speak their own language without being put in jail. Yes, apparently it is a crime in Iran to speak in Azeri.

All of the old Czarist states in Central Asia are predominantly Turkic peoples. Historically they are victims of Persian and Arab conquerors, just as they were once conquerors of Persian and Arabs.

Georgia is the missing link to connect almost all of Trans-Turkistan by land and the Caspian. And they have a heckuva lot of oil and gas, all told.

Hence, the 11th hour critical dimensions of the Georgian crisis…