Georgia has a strategic interest in controlling its borders. Russia has over twenty million muslim citizens, many of whom are in the Red Army. Russia is even sending muslim Chechen "ex-rebels" into Georgia to wage jihad against the Christian nation of Georgia.
To prevent another Crete or Serbia or Yugoslavia.
The West wants Georgia like the West wants Turkey... but less.
Russia, America, India, Europe, China.... we are already allied to solve the worlds “problems”