“…a response outside diplomacy” –a reponse outside ‘the’ diplomacy?

The diplomacy that has yielded the Georgia agreement. That’s what that means.

Russia won’t budge from Georgia as long as the Poland deal stands.

That way, the three events are linked –in a simple 1-2-3-4 sequence –and it will be the Polish deal that is keeping Georgia occupied.

The Russians will “go dark” in this equation –and so will USA –it will be Poland and Georgia in the ring –as diplomatic adversaries before long.

As far as Russia’s pledges, they’ll keep on intending to honor them, adding that, but really, under the new situational conditions created by Poland, their citizens are newly threatened, and until their citizens are no longer threatened, there is really nothing they can do about the current Georgian status quo.

that’s my guess.