So Bush should have been more supportive of GA? You've posted something that persuasively argues in favor of what the U.S and NATO are doing now; better late than never.

Moreover, by not coming to Georgia’s defense in the lopsided 2008 conflict, the international community had proved to the Russians that it was “essentially lacking in the will to back up its fine words,” Galeotti says. “In hindsight, one wonders, would Crimea and the Donbass wars have happened if the West had been more robust in its response to Georgia?”