So, just to make it clear, who are you supposed to be protesting against? Georgia, for invading South Ossetia? Or Russia, for invading Georgia in response?
It's not like this was a clear-cut case of one state invading another without casus belli, unlike certain other conflicts going on at this point. So,
who's the bad guy they're supposed to be vilifying? It's hard to go "THEY'RE BOTH BAD!"; it kind of ruins the fun of the protest.
Incidentally, America is paralysed in good part because the majority of her ground force projection capabilities are tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan, thus
rendering her essentially impotent to do anything but ineffectually protest Russia's crushing of a US client state.
It's not like this was a clear-cut case of one state invading another without casus belli, unlike certain other conflicts going on at this point. So,
who's the bad guy they're supposed to be vilifying? It's hard to go "THEY'RE BOTH BAD!"; it kind of ruins the fun of the protest.
Incidentally, America is paralysed in good part because the majority of her ground force projection capabilities are tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan, thus
rendering her essentially impotent to do anything but ineffectually protest Russia's crushing of a US client state.