[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Para-Ord.45]

It`s what we`ve been saying from the get-go.

Ship tons of MANPADS and TOWs to the Georgians.

[afortiori]

I wonder if Putin has to be disappointed too that the price of oil has declined, not spiked, following the invasion.

[Riodacat]

Yah, let’s stockpile our latest and best stuff in Georgia for the Ruskies to liberate.

[TomasUSMC]

This might work if the Russians fight like wimps, but if they decide to level the cities - the cities will be leveled....from 30,000 feet. To stop that you need Real SAMs and F-15s.

The question right now is what will America risk over Georgia instead of, if we had proper leadership in this country, what will Russia risk.

The biggest worry shouldn’t be US worrying about how to respond - the biggest worry should be the Russian’s worrying about what the US response is going to do to them.

In fact if that worry had been big enough the Russians would not have moved in at all.

We need a much bigger powerful military supported by a draft. A volunteer force is great against enemies like Panama Grenada Iraq Yugoslavia but it won’t be strong enough for China or Russia.

Or maybe Georgia is at fault...either way the U.S. military is too small to wage a big war.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" Most people have been grossly exaggerating Russian military strength "
I never " grossly exaggerate " what the Russians can do, because, I just don't trust them or the Chinese.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" They can't even resort to the time honored tactic of butchering the local population of Ossetia and Abkhazia, since these are now "Russian citizens," having been granted passports by the Russian government (thereby doing Hitler one better: there actually were Germans in the Sudetenland, but Putin had to invent his downtrodden "Russian" minority in Georgia). "

What makes us think that Putin would not kill his own citizens than Saddam Hussein killing his own citizens ?

[Maximilian]

What alternate universe is this guy living in?

In the real world, the Russians took only minutes to smash the Georgian military and send them fleeing. Now he wants Georgia to try again?

That’s like telling the Iraqi Republican Guard that they’d be able to defeat the US military the second time around as long as they have a few SAMs available.

Not going to happen in this reality, perhaps there are some alternate realities available to this writer through the powerful drugs he’s taking.

[elhombrelibre]

What can be done ping.

[TigersEye]

The President says that Russia must leave ALL Georgian territory. They’re not so arming Georgia has to be the next option. Arm them up and blow the Roki tunnel and the rail line into Abkhazia. Give the Russians no retreat and let Georgia wipe them out.