“Hard Choices for the NATO: Expansion vs Commitments”. Young Atlantic. 29 Mar. 2008 – Suspending all the imprecise and misleading talk of color revolutions for a moment, Ukraine and Georgia are too politically unstable –the former divided in their Western and Russian leanings and the later with parts of the country on the brink of declaring Kosovor-style independence — to be of much use to the alliance in the near term. And such a move would provoke real Russian anger far more than the phantom punches over the missile shield.