I sort of agree. It was a big, short term win for Russia, not because it stabilized anything. Attacks on Russians are still happening in the Caucasus. In the long run, it will seriously damage Russian interests.
The win was showing that the USA hasn't the backbone to live up to it's security agreements. That makes NATO a Joke.
The 19th century really sucked for Russia. The 20th was even worse. I'm not sure why Russian would choose to try and return to the 19th century instead of joining the civilized world in the 21st century. Time only goes one way.
Meanwhile, I found this on the OOB of Georgia;
"From mid-June to mid-July 2005, some 800 Georgian troops conducted large-scale tank exercises using some 170 battle tanks. One year earlier, Georgia had only 76 T-55 and T-72 tanks. Ukraine supplied many of the new T-72 tanks, some of which were improved T-72 SIM-1 models."
snipped from here;
http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...orgia/army.htm
So it looks like Georgia picked up about 90 some T-72's in '05. Not sure if that version of the T-72 is in the game as a T-84.