IN 2010, I had a conversation with a Georgian national while we were strapped into our seats on a plane from Tbilisi to Paris. The gentleman was a businessman based out in Germany and had very interesting points of view on working in Germany versus working in Georgia. While we spoke a bit about the conditions of business world and recession, we also spoke about Georgia’s lifelong predicament with its neighbor, Russia and the current head, tail and claws, of state Mr. Putin. The gentleman, while agreeing that Putin was never going to be any good for Georgia, voiced his concern that anyone else who might come into power may be even worse.