” This comes after Russia’s failure in August 2008 to oust the democratically elected government by means of an invasion.”
Sorry, but Georgia initiated that little skirmish.
Obama is certainly bungling Russia, just like everything else he touches, but Russia has been bungled since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
We had an opportunity for Russia to be a super ally but the bungling idiots in D.C. totally screwed the chance Reagan handed us. Probably the most costly screw-up in the history of the world...with the exception of Zero in the White House.
That is bull. Russia's invasion took weeks to months to put together and was preceded by material support for secessionists in Georgia. Either you don't know what happened there or you're shilling for the Ruskies.
Russia provoked the Georgian reaction to co-incide with the training exercise of their 58th Army. It was so obvious that the Washington Post saw it.