OldSalt:
If Old Europe will not defend new Europe

- Russia is Europe too. But the problem with defending Georgia is that not everything is geopolitics and the Georgian cause is so blatantly unjust. (when it comes to SO – Abkhazia is another story) They have no moral ground to stand on and only the flimsiest of legal justification. The only reason they want membership in NATO is so they can have somebody to hold their jacket and watch their back while they rough up that little guy over there. I hardly think that’s what NATO is supposed to be. NATO membership should require some level of national maturity and restrain. Neither of which Georgia has. Perhaps in twenty years. They could start showing their maturity by letting the Ossetians go their own way peacefully.

OldSalt:
“Russia is recognized as the belligerent in this hostility”

- no, it wouldn’t stand because it would be such an obvious lie. Georgia started the last round of war. There’s no getting around it. I would never support sending Danish troops to Georgia to fight the Russians over Georgia’s right to suppress the Ossetians which wants nothing to do with the Georgians and consider the Russians liberators. Why on Earth should I? I want nothing to do with Georgia’s little dirty war against its ethnic minorities and would oppose any attempt to abuse NATO in such a way.