They will need every man and every bullet when they have to defend Tblisi.
They need our help.
After all, they were there for us when we needed them.
This is about protecting freedom.
nope... defend nothing.
Every military aged man should just melt into the populace now. They should take and hide every piece of armament except for heavy stuff. Every artillery shell, mine, grenade, RPG, surface to air every single bullet...... then just fade away.
Then every night go out hunting and setting traps in order to bleed the Russians. The real men that want to sack up might take a couple of teams into Russia and start doing some damage as well..... just little things, being very careful not to kill civilians but just gum up the works by disrupting utilities, hydroelectric, sewage, rail, pipeline etc....
Once the Soviets stir up the hornet's nest, well there are an awful lot of little countries that would rather see a weak Russia swatting at all the ants. Might be time for the Chechnyans to go at it and blame the Georgians.... or even the Ukranians might want to add to the mix.
Of course the other little thing that the Russians might not have put in the mix is the Chinese. So who would benefit the most by a weak Russia..... the US... well not really, the Euro-weenies, not likely cause they depend on the Soviet oil .....
yep, the Chinese. they would benefit the most by maybe deciding that they like Siberian oil.
Now I know that our armed forces are stretched and the logistics favor Russian forces in Georgia.... but can they protect the entire area of Ukraine, China and possibly other countries that would love to stick it to Russia.
And then there is...... Poland. Poor, poor Poland. Just sitting there like it always has... the Germans on one side, the Russians on the other.
Do we defend Poland? They are even more of an ally than the Georgians or do we sell them out like we did in the second world war.
Yeah, I just want a f'ing community activist from an affirmative action position in Harvard to try some real "hard diplomacy" (whatever that means)...... I'd almost like to see the first 6 months of an Obama term of office.... it would be comical if it weren't so serious.
The Russians will not attack Tblisi, nor will they occurpy any Georgian territory besides the two "disputed" regions in the north.
Their incursions into Georgian territory proper are temporary and meant to neutralize the Georgian military and secure the disputed regions from attack by the Georgians.
At least, that's MHO.
If the Russians intended to take Tblisi, it would already have fallen in the blitzkrieg. It would have been easy for them.
It's apparent the stated limited goals of the Russians are in fact all then intend to achieve.
A dozen A-10’s and a few F-15’sm would do wonders.