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American equipment has only fought outdated export versions of Soviet equipment, ie Iraq and Yugoslavia, and always with overwhelming odds in our favor, ie force multipliers like satellites, jamming planes, etc. The jets/tanks/etc used by Russia itself are an entirely different story.

If the US invested an enormous amoutn of money in the Georgian military (I’m talking tens of billions of dollars, not a few million), then Georgia would be able to give the Russians a bloody nose. But unlike western countries, that wouldn’t deter Russia. If the US suffered the same numbers of casualties in Iraq or Afghanistan as Russia did in Afghanistan or even Chechnya, millions of Americans would be storming the whitehouse and the president would have no choice but to call it off. THe Russian leadership has no such worries. The Russian population is so depressed that they regard large casualties as acceptable. Secondly, you can’t just give a lot of advanced equipment to someone and expect them to know how to use it. It takes years to develop the necessary training. LOok at how poorly Egypt/Syria did versus Israel in ‘67 despite having some fairly advanced equipment.

The simple truth is that there is no way for Georgia to defend itself against Russia. Russia knows it and the US knows it, the only one who doesn’t seem to know it is Sakashvili.

I again point out Afghanistan, to whom we didn't provide that much really in comparison. We can certainly equip the Georgians with enough defensive equipment to make it very, very, painful for the Russians to invade again.

Be glad Reagan is not here or it would be done.