Feeling the love...
The Georgian crisis with Russia is something that gives everyone in Europe cause for pause, but consider how the rest of Europe has responded. Instead of cowering to Putin's muscle, the leaders of other likely Russian aspirations not only all met with the Georgian government with strong solidarity, but are making overt gestures to the U.S. even now when it could cause the Russian sore to become even more inflamed.
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missile defense deal with Poland signed and in effect, now
Ukraine is offering up old Soviet facilities for the U.S. to do something similar.
If Russia suffers from paranoia about freedom edging too closely to its border, it seems it has taken exactly the wrong actions to slow its process.