Georgia is not dead and it will take a lot of killing. Nations die hard. And it costs. It took a long time for the Russians to stomp the Chechens and they aren’t completely stomped yet. If Putin had been able to give Georgia the Bum’s Rush that would be one thing. But the Georgians have turned this into a via dolorosa for the Bear. It will be a geopolitical catastrophe for Russia. Alarm bells are ringing in the Ukraine, the Baltics, and Poland. The wagons will be circled. The Cold War is probably back, as of now. And for what? Dogpatch?