Hopefully it will also have a moderating effect on the US led rush to incorporate Georgia into Nato

While the the International Institute for Strategic Studies said Russia's reaction to the Georgian move was "disproportionately strong" it went on to say that there was now a risk that the US would press home its attempt to bring Georgia – and Ukraine - into Nato.
But it said the European members of the alliance should resist this.

"Europeans have a strong case to argue that it is in NATO's strategic interest to pause its enlargement policy…Europe will want to invite the US to think strategically, not nostalgically, about the weight it wishes to attach to NATO enlargement in its regional policy."

The Financial Times September 18 2008