I would be willing to bet Putin is spitting nails that sombody on the SO side sparked this when the Americans were in town. They can make a lot of fancy claims about what the Georgians and the Americans must do but they know they don’t have the horspower to force it to happen.
Uh, if anyone has the horsepower available for a land war in their own backyard, its Russia. They’re not tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan as we are.