Where's the option for leave them the fuck alone and let them decide what they want to do?
They seem to want to join the Northern ~4/5th of their nation, so that's why the language of "let them" in the first option.
And Georgia decided to invade to strong-arm them into compliance, and they chose do to it just when the world won't notice because of the Olympics. And the world didn't - BBC, CNN, etc kept silent as if nothing was going on. Then Russia took the bait and rolled in the defense of South Ossetia, and suddenly the western media is like, "wow, where did that come from, big bad Russia attacking poor defenseless Georgia for its vast natural resources"...

Needless to say, this goes a long way in validating a number of other suspicions / conspiracy theories I have...