Russia and the West?
ll those countries were part of the FORMER USSR (First letter stood for UNITED). After the Fall of East Germany it was proven that the USSR played a pretty good game of poker because their military was just about bankrupt. With what happened in Georgia I'll give a situation in reverse ... Lets say that the US was the military weakling AND Cuba was the military giant. Cuba invades S. Florida (because the Cubans living there wanted to become part of Cuba again) to take Miami back (OMFG there are enough former Cubans living there) and march their tanks all the way up to S. Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama so anything military is weakened and cannot fight back, and take all the way from Orlando to Key West. That is what Russia did. I am not saying it is right what the Russians did, BUT it also wasn't right (nor smart) what the Georgian military did. But in that area where many of the ties and alliances were still to Moscow and not the the Georgian Capital, I think that Russia did what the US would have done if the situation was reversed. I agree that not only the US but also EUROPE (mainly Europe) needs to take a stand. The US is NOT the worlds police force, and cannot and should not go to the aide of every small country that cries because the local playground bully beats them up. The line needs to be drawn BUT it is EUROPE not the US that needs to draw the line and have the US back them up with nothing more than a "big brother" kind of presense.