Washington's re-set with Moscow has one very clear casualty: Georgia. Amer-ica insists it still supports the small democracy, but it also says Russia's ongoing occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two breakaway regions formerly a part of Georgia, "need no longer be considered an ob-stacle" to inking a nuclear deal with Moscow, which was tabled after the 2008 invasion. NATO, too, is cooling toward Tbilisi. The military alliance hasn't set any concrete membership targets for Georgia yet-a clear signal that NATO is in no hurry to talk about Georgian accession, which Moscow opposes.
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