Why would continued military operations by Russian in Georgia have an impact:
- Conflict costs money from gas for the airplanes to $100,000 a throw missile to even bullets. The US is spending $12 Billion a month in Iraq. Where is Russia going to find the money for this? May be be reducing capital spending on oil fields...
- Pipelines for Natural Gas all come from Russian to Europe. What is Europe's response to this conflict going to be? What impact will that have on Europe's future imports of natural gas from Russian. Currently they don't have a choice.
- The pipeline through Georgia for Oil to Turkey may get more damaged.
- Georgia may decide to do a nasty guerrilla war against Russian. This could get expensive for Russia.
- This could kick off an arms race in the area, as ex-Soviet Republics that are anti-Russian beef up their arm purchases.
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