So What Have We Learned

A few lessons come to mind when hearing the updates from the Georgian-Russian conflict:

1. Saber-rattling with a country whose army is 20x larger than yours is typically not a good idea.
2. Expecting/hoping the US or NATO to come to your aid with military force when we are already engaged in two other wars with a threat of a third is not a good idea.
3. Condemning a country for "using military force to invade a sovereign nation and effecting a regime change" sounds pretty weak when you have, uh, invaded another sovereign nation with military force for the effect of a regime change.
4. As everyone guessed, Putin is still in control of Russia.
5. At the moment, it would appear that Russia holds all the cards.