[SunStar]

Just imagine that Georgia entered NATo in Bucharest summit some weeks ago?
Amd Sakashvilli AS NATO country- president attacked Russian troops.
Just how could Bush convince Putin that US are not behind deaths of Russian soldiers?
And how would Russians react?

More importantly, how would NATO react to a member country being attacked and invaded by bloodthirsty Russian troops?

[alarm rider]

IMO, Europe is too weak militarily to really put many troops into anything.

A very smart friend of mine told me sometime back that WWIII would start in “Russia's backyard” and carry itself to the Balkans and to Europe proper and that the current state of European military power could do nothing but make a phone call. Guess who they will call?

Putin knows that the US will not/cannot do much to stop this due to our commitment in Iraq. Just my opinion however, and I hope I am wrong.