Nope.  It just means you made a good, educated guess.  The Russians have been getting nasty with Georgia for some time; I could've probably made the same guess.  Some links would be nice, something besides your word...I trust but verify.

 

On to other subjects:  DA, when was the last time a nuclear-armed country was invaded? 

 

Try the The War of Attrition

Try Yom Kippur

Try the Sino Soviet Conflict 

Try the Falklands Conflict 

Try the India vs Pakistan war in 1999 

Thats just off the top of my head. Nuclear weapons are a great deterrent but obviously no guarantee of security by themselves. 

-DA 

 

So in other words, you have nothing that proves you're right and I'm wrong, other than your educated guess and your word.  Okay...that works both ways, you know.  My educated guess, based on a career in historical study and my word as a Pretty Smart Guy, is that Putin sees an opportunity to shove Obama around, given Obama's propensity to cave in rather than stand firm.

 

That analysis may be wrong, but it carries no less weight than yours.  I suppose this is the spot where you tell me about your long and storied career, of which nothing can be proven.  Which is okay.  For all you know, I could be Rahm Emanuel.  (Better watch out, YelliChink.  We really know you're Glenn Beck.)

Strawman arguments otherwise, DA.  The War of Attrition never went beyond the east bank of the Sinai, which Israel never claimed was theirs.  The Arabs discounted rumors of Israeli nuclear weapons in 1973.  The Sino-Soviet "war" was over a disputed island in the middle of a river--hardly an invasion.  The British were unsure of keeping the Falklands to begin with, so they certainly weren't going to launch a Polaris into Buenos Aires over the place.  The only time your argument works is in the Kargil War of 1999, when both Pakistan and India had nuclear weapons--but India's objective was to clear out that section of Kashmir of Islamist terrorists, something which they made well-known to Pakistan before the war started.

 

What we've been talking about here, you and I, is a full-blown, Operation Barbarossa style invasion across the North German Plain to Moscow.  We both know that's never going to happen.  NATO isn't capable of it and has no intention whatsoever of even trying to attempt it.  Were such an invasion to occur, it would vanish in nuclear fireballs, which is why no one is stupid enough to try invading Russia again--or the US, for that matter. Unfortunately, it's impossible to convince the Russian leadership of this, due to their paranoia and inferiority complex, and need for a boogeyman to scare the Russian public into accepting their leadership. 

 

You want to appease such paranoia.  I, like Harry Truman, am personally sick of babysitting it.  Appeasement only makes war more likely, but that's a concept that the Obama administration can't seem to grasp.  Eventually, I'm sure it will.  I just hope not too many people are killed for that to happen.