Eventually the oil prices are going to collapse back to a fundamentally realistic level, and when that happens it is going to hurt Russia big time. And I will laugh my ass off at the thought of those thugs not rolling in as much dough. Russia does not have much of an economy outside of natural resources. So, right now they are flying high, but eventually things settle back to the norm.

Well, in a couple of months the Caucasus passes will be snowed in, meaning that the only way to resupply its army in Georgia will be by air or by sea. The Georgians could use some surface to air missiles to make life doubly miserable for the Russian army. Give them a taste of what it was like for the German Sixth Army up there on the Volga in the winter of 1942-43.