The Baltic States?
Poland?
Germany?
France?
Great Britain?
The United States?
........................................These are all part of NATO, much different scenario, Georgia is not unfortunatley and Russia wants to make sure they never will be.
And the Russians are already threatening The Baltic States and Poland, saying 'They will pay' for their support for Georgia. The time to stop aggression is at its first attack. If France and Germany had stopped Germany at any of its early military aggression, the German General Staff had plans to kick Hitler out. They couldn't believe how weak the West was over the Sudetenland, Austria, Checoslovakia. By that time Hitler had them convinced that the West would never resist. Doesn't anybody even here on Free Republic know any history?