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⌐ AV8OR WANNABE
No it has to do with the fact that Georgia has been very supportive of the US and have over 2,000 soldiers in Iraq which considering the fact they have an army of some 40,000 is quite amazing and shows how supportive they’ve been of our efforts in Iraq AND Afghanistan.
The Russians have an army of hundreds of thousands not to mention the Spetsnaz and other special ops forces which are the ones that’ll be primarily sent to Georgia. For Georgians every soldier really does count - they aren't naïve; they know we won't help them militarily.
Yeah, I was trying to make two points, albeit quite poorly. 1- We already are invovled in this. Not much, but airlifting troops back to Georgia is something. I agree, there is no way we are going to do much else, nor will the U.N. or anyone else for that matter.
2-I was trying to be a bit sarcastic with this one, I think the Russian advance was purely a grab for the oil pipeline.
Regardless, it will be interesting to see what happens.