Those were the words of Georgian Foreign Minister David Bakradze as the rhetorics were stepped up in the wake of the 2-4 April NATO meeting in Bucharest, Romania. Georgia and Ukraine are eager to receive approval for their membership action plans. The US, Poland and other Eastern member states are pushing for recognition of the membership bids of the former Soviet states. An alliance of Germany, France, Spain, Italy and other West-European countries are, however, opposed to granting candidate status to Georgia and Ukraine. Russia has expressed its outright opposition to seeing more of its neighbours joining the military organisation and the West-European states seem eager to avoid another showdown with Russia on words. Instead they opt for a more consensual strategy out of a fear of annihilating Russia even more. The question is which of the two approaches is the best strategy.