Russia proves lessons from other lopsided conflicts

The only apparent reason why the Georgian forces did so badly is that they underestimated Putin. The man is hard core and his soul, whether Bush can see into it or not is KGB. There is a global primacy entropy and most people are unaware of it, like the frog that get boiled by gradually turning up the heat. When one nation's primacy recedes another will fill the void. Russian primacy has been building since Putin took office. The rise is did not cease when he left, Putin just uses a proxy. The Russian chessboard involves moves in Iran, Venezuela associated efforts with China to limit U.S. primacy. Additionally he knows that we don't have much leverage in Europe.

There is another unmentioned element here. There is no significant world condemnation of Russia for going into Georgia. Or at least any that Russia seems to care about at all. Any military effort by the U.S. immediately gets condemned not only by most of the world, but by Code Pink, MoveOn, ANSWER, etc. Where are the "War is never the answer" groups out protesting Russia's military? Where are the "Putin lied and people died" signs? Where are the "No war for Oil" posters? If they came out in Russia, the people holding them would be in jail or dead. But they aren't out on the U.S. streets either. I guess those anti-war folks are only anti-war when it is the U.S. going to war. So Russia's military did the job like the U.S. military won't, and to a large degree because the U.S. military more and more won't move if there is the likelihood that just one civilian might get hurt. And that's even when our enemy plants their mortars in the middle of elementary schools and mosques. Russia is ruthless. As a military should be in war.