the empire, loosing in ukraine, is opening syria and georgia as new problems for the putin, and so far loosing there as well it appears;

Georgia: A Second Front for Putin

Paul Craig Roberts 

President Putin faces the possibility of a second Ukraine, a second war front that could result from Washington’s success in staging a coup d’etat in Georgia with a color revolution. Riots ongoing since the “Russian party” defeated the “Western party” by 54% to 34% have convinced the Prime Minister of Georgia that the West is in the process of launching a color revolution to overthrow, as was done in Ukraine, the democratically elected government.  Putin is silent and consequently could find himself fighting on two fronts.  Then the West will open a third front. This is what Putin can expect from consistently presenting himself as a non-interventionist unless Russia is attacked.  Russia, certainly the most powerful military entity on earth, carries no weight in Western councils.

Georgia, the country, became a part of Russia in early 1800. In 1917 Georgia became one of the provinces of the Soviet Union.  The country became independent in 1991 when the collapse of the Soviet Union gave Washington the opportunity to break up the Soviet Union. Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Central Asian provinces were turned into independent countries.

In 2003 Washington engineered the “Rose Revolution” in Georgia, which put a pro-Western government in office. In 2008  Washington  sent its US trained and equipped Georgian army into South Ossetia, a disputed province that did not agree to leave Russia with Georgia. As Russian peacekeepers were killed in the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, Putin sent in the Russian Army which quickly destroyed the American trained Georgian Army  and conquered Georgia in five days, which is what should have happened in Ukraine.........more........