RatsPatootie may have won the battle with Georgia.
But he’s losing the battle for the hearts and minds of the masses.
I see Georgia fighting tooth and nail.
I don’t see the Bears winning the war.
The battle, maybe.
The war, hardly. (I hope anyway.)
That doesn't count for much in some wars. The "hearts and minds" of Eastern Europeans were anti-Soviet, yet their countries remained conquered territory until the Soviet Union collapsed from within. Similarly, none of the small captive nations ever liberated themselves from Nazi conquest, even when the population supported guerrilla tactics. Saddam Hussein lost the "hearts and minds" of the Kurds and Shiites, but they never liberated themselves. We had to do it for them. Many wishful-thinkers underestimate the ability of totalitarian regimes to control populations.