[quote=Dervish]
Former Soviet republic Russia invaded and defeated in like 4 days a few years back.
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1. The war lasted more than twice that long.
2. The Republic of Georgia was not defeated. There was no change of sovereign borders, only de facto Russian occupation of a portion of Georgian territory. Unlike the conflict in neighbouring Azerbaijan about fifteen years before the Russo-Georgian war, which ended in universal compliance to the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishkek_Protocol]Bishkek Protocol[/url], the situation in Georgia remains actively in dispute.

[quote=Dervish]
Funny, because most of the news I am reading says that NATO isn't obligated to assist (also, the Ukraine is not a NATO member. Don't know where that came from) and the US has been emphasizing that military action is not on the table. As for China, China usually sides with Russia (for instance, the whole Arab Spring thing) and while there's a lot of historically bad blood between them, I don't see China taking interest. This whole thing is Georgia all over again. I sincerely hope that people didn't forget about that.
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The United States had no duty to defend Georgian territory. Russian occupation of Ukraine, on the other hand, is in violation of the treaty under which Ukraine transferred its nuclear stockpile to the Russian Federation (the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Security_Assurances]Budapest Memorandum[/url]). While Ukraine isn't a NATO power, Poland and Lithuania are, and Russia is making military movements in Kaliningrad (a Russian exclave bordering both countries) similar to those made near Ukraine prior to the occupation of Crimea.