Now I have to admit that I have little sympathy for either Russia or Georgia (the former Soviet territory and current independent, sovereign state). I might be inclined to be slightly more biased in favour of the “little guy”, Georgia… as I am not confident that the press either has, or is telling, the full story with regards to what touched off the recent Russian invasion.

Regarding the airlifting of Georgian troops back to their homeland, well, that was the right thing to do: when another nation’s armed forces are deployed out-of-country at the behest of the World’s Lone Hyperpower™ to help it along on its wars of empire, and that other nation is suddenly troubled by another former empire that would like to perhaps not-so-kindly remind the rest of the world that it has much of the military hardware from its superpower days, and the will to use them on a pipsqueak former satellite state, it behoves us of the aforementioned Hyperpower™ to shuttle them back to their homeland at the very least.

Beyond that, and some statements attacking Russia for her impropriety at militarily badgering her neighbours … we really have no room to speak too heatedly against Russian military actions in her own back yard.

That, and we really shouldn’t have (a) made promises to Georgia that we really aren’t able to, or willing to keep and (b) either backed the Russians into a corner or given them an excuse to use their new-found resource wealth to re-grow their military back to Cold War levels with our courting of all those newly “free” former Soviet states into NATO (which is something of a defunct and increasingly irrelevant alliance).

Unless of course, that is exactly what the military-industrial complex wants: a new Cold War to keep the revenue streaming into their pockets.