I came across this interesting article from Europe, quoting statements by a former Georgian defense minister on how Georgia managed to avoid being absorbed by Russia in the 2008 invasion. The minister, Dmitri Shashkin, feels the American response, though late, was decisive enough to make the difference:
But in fact, Shishkin says, it was “the Georgian army, international support and specific steps by the US” which “stopped Russia” then. “Many do not know that our peacekeeping brigade returned from Iraq to Tbilisi on American military planes which under the circumstances of war was direct military support by the US.
“Many do not know that Russia could not bomb the Tbilisi airport because American Hercules planes were on the tarmac,”Shishkin continues. “Many do not know that the flagship of the US Fifth Fleet which entered the Black Sea monitored on its radars the airspace in the Tbilisi-Moscow-Volgograd triangle.”
And “many do not know that the August 14 Hercules flights from Jordan were accompanied by (American) fighters. Many do not know that the statement of the commander of these fights that “any activity of Russian planes in the Georgian sky will be considered an attack on the United States of America,” thus effectively closing the Georgian sky to Russian planes.
Read the whole thing, and if still interested, there is this analysis from Breitbart.com
Sadly, your source will invalidate the info presented to many people.
Not to worry. Water cannot sink the weakest ship unless it gets inside.