Then there are rising tensions over plans by the United States to based a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as the growing likelihood that further NATO enlargement will include Georgia, the increasingly prosperous neighbor with which Russia has fractious relations. Russia continues to fan secessionist flames there by encouraging the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
还有，美国打算在波兰和捷克共和国建立导弹防御系统，以及北约进一步东扩越来越可能包括格鲁吉亚，因此造成紧张局势日益升高。日益显现繁荣的格鲁吉亚与邻国俄国的关系充满摩擦。俄国继续在那里通过鼓励阿布哈兹和南奥塞梯独立而煽动分裂主义。