If they don’t go peacebly, make them bleed. There are enough Georgian fighters that, well armed by the US, they will make the Russians wish they never invaded. It won’t take long.

The diplomatic arm seems to be doing well under Rice. Poland, Estonia, and Ukraine are all standing up. Even the French participation is worthwhile. I suspect it will avalanche although Germany will be late to the party.

Another high priority task for the US is to strengthen the Eastern European countries electric grids and help make them independent from Gazprom’s natural gas. US and Japanese subsidies of new nuclear power plants in Poland and Bulgaria would help, to prevent sales of Russian reactors.