“I personally believe we should have challeneged the Russian force at Poti.”
I do too
Make that three of us.
Nope. Georgia is set up to be a proxy war. We just need to arm them (and insure that the Russians can't over-escalate), which is why I said that we'd come in at Bat'umi instead of Porti.
In comes the aid. Arm the Georgians. Let the Georgians take care of Russian outposts in Georgia later, after the Georgians have imported enough anti-aircraft, anit-ship, and anti-tank missiles to bleed the Bear.
Timing matters.