[elhombrelibre]

What can be done ping.

[pissant]

How about nuke moscow.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I really think at this point, we will be sending in aid, and then the reconstruction can begin. And in reconstructing, we can arm the Georgians.

But the lynchpin is the Euroweenies. Without them, and the US stretched thin in Iraq and Afghanistan it is a difficult situation.

we also need to assist Ukraine and the Baltic states and beef up Poland ( which a missle shield etc will help). the Estonians are already sending troops. I mean, really, what have they got to lose? they are already in the bulls eye.

Another brilliant ( or exhausted ..ha) thought: Arm our illegal Mexican immigrants and send them over with a promise of US citizenship after a year fighting the Russians. Ok, not a good idea.

[Marine_Uncle]

The Russians are going to hold steadfast. They will choose to leave Georgia when they feel they have won this chess move.
Blowing the tunnel has no real value in the long run. Russia is minutes away from deploying a large air fleet of mixed aircraft if it chooses to do so.
Our sentiments to want to send in an airwing of say Warthogs fully covered by F15's and F22 and blow all the Russian armor to bits cannot in the reality be an option.
If we really want to threaten the Russians we need our congress to give the green thumbs to all forms of drilling and refinery building as well as yanking the coal out of the ground and converting it into all the petrochemical based products and fuels we know is readily available.
Give the green light to only US friendy oil companies the rights to all this stuff on our shores.
The Saudi and slowly emerging Iraqi will have to stay on our side for a number of good reasons, and with Canada and Mexico's continued oil exports to us we in even a few years could offset the Russian desire to destroy us from an economical standpoint.
I don't know about what others here think, but I am convinced the Russians are betting on the Pelosi/Reid team to keep us stuck in the mud on the oil/gas/coal issues.
Putin and his crime gang do not want us to nuke them. So they can only sink us by destroying our economy and means to produce taxes that can sustain a super power level military. And we know where the majority of tax base is derived from.

[sobieski]

Soft responses, but the Russians control the game. A more intelligent playing in advance would’ve helped.