After the Revolution

The breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have already invited the whole gang to their international recognition party. (No RSVPs yet.)

But that doesn’t stop Russia from warning Georgia that what will really set the two provinces on an independence rampage is Georgia’s intention to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

According to an article from the BBC, Russia’s NATO ambassador has warned that Georgia’s joining the alliance would be the last straw.

Residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia were excluded from Georgia’s recent national referendum regarding NATO membership, the ambassador pointed out.

It seems that the provinces that recently gave Putin’s favored presidential candidate 90 percent of their (somewhat dubiously obtained) votes would probably follow the Moscow line in opposing membership in the organization. 

The ambassador said:

“As soon as Georgia gets some kind of prospect from Washington of NATO membership, the next day the process of real secession of these two territories from Georgia will begin.”