Ukes may want to re think your prayer considering that the US trained, supplied and equipped the Georgian military and police for more than a decade before the Russians mopped the floor with 'em, from a ready position far more remote than they now hold at the Ukraine border.
Russia's military is also six years more advanced, refined, weaponized and angry.
This won't be pretty, and the Ukes will get no help from the US. Georgia didn't, and the US had considerable troops on training exercises in Georgia when Saakashvili pulled the pin.
Hostilities can only end two ways, Ukes get slaughtered, or Ukes get slaughtered and we get WWIII.
Third possibility. Russia pushes into Ukraine and is bled by guerrilla warfare till it withdraws with an even more broken economy.
Putin is playing a masterful hand with weak cards at the moment, I'll give him that. Then again, he is primarily playing against Obama who is about as stupid as they come.
Russia isn't really that strong. Ukraine is a broken shell right now, but it will get it's act together and Russia's annexation of the Crimea was probably enough to unify most Ukrainians (even many ethnic Russians) to fight hard to keep the rest.
The Georgian military received very little from the US that was useful in a force-on-force clash. No F-16 fighters, no M1 tanks, no Apache choppers, no AC-130's. Even today, the major American items in the Georgian inventory are Humvees, Cougar MRAP's and a couple of former US Coast Guard vessels. Just how under-equipped were they? Here's a telling passage:
Even prior to the 2008 conflict Georgia had no missiles for the two vessels (Dioskura and Tbilisi) that had missile tubes.Even today, their coast guard/naval inventory isn't missile-armed:
As a new acquisition, and contracted prior to August 2008, the Georgian Coast Guard has placed one Turkish built MRTP-33 patrol/fast attack boat, the P-24 Sokhumi, into service. At least one more ship of this class is reportedly on order.[7][unreliable source?] These vessels are multi-mission capable so as to serve the diverse needs of Coast Guard response. The heaviest armament seen on these ships are 25-30mm cannon.6 years after the clash with the Russians, Georgia still has no American-made fixed wing aircraft. Its US inventory is limited to Vietnam-era Huey choppers.
Why do you hate the Ukrainians? And whose navy did you serve in, the Russian’s?