Georgia turns to U.N. after saying Russia shot down spy pla

[BruteForce]

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Georgia has asked the U.N. Security Council to discuss Russia's "military aggression" after saying a Russian jet shot down one of its unmanned spy planes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was reportedly surprised by Georgian military flights over Abkhazia.

"We call upon the United Nations to address this direct military aggression against Georgia and to fully exploit its own means and capabilities in order to keep the situation from further escalation," Georgia's U.N. Ambassador Irakli Alasania told reporters Monday.

To bolster its case, the Georgian air force released a video that it says shows a twin-tailed Russian MiG-29 shooting down a Georgian unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, over the separatist region of Abkhazia on Sunday.

The video -- shot by the drone, Georgia says -- shows a jet fighter firing a missile that streaks through the sky, trailed by a column of white smoke. The missile gets closer and closer and then suddenly the screen goes blank.

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[EvilCouch]

I guess at least part of Abkhazia doesn't consider itself to be under Georgian rule anymore.

[Chiron]

What if Georgia was going to become part of NATO? Would the Russians attack a NATO country? If so would we go to war with Russia?

Then again what does Georgia have to do with the North Atlantic? Maybe NATO should change its name to NHTO or Northern Hemisphere Treaty Organization.

There is a SATO South Atlantic Treaty Organization that's what kept us out of the Falklands in 1982. Should that become SHTO?

It would make things easier.