Americans didn’t seem to care when Russia invaded Georgia (or Chechnya). It’s only when Russia started protecting its GDP by eliminating its only meaningful co

Americans didn’t seem to care when Russia invaded Georgia (or Chechnya). It’s only when Russia started protecting its GDP by eliminating its only meaningful competition for selling shale gas to the west did it become geopolitically critical to turn public opinion against it. Russia’s GDP eventually collapses if Ukraine remains intact, as the west will buy gas from them instead. There are no meaningful quantities of petrochemicals in Georgia.