Russia occupies and annexes all of Georgia 2008

It wouldn't have been annexed, they would have set up a puppet government, forced it to recognize Abkhazia and S.O., perhaps established a naval base.
 
For the F-117 shot down over Serbia by SA-3, the RADAR operator simply changed the wavelengths of their P-18s to longer than usual which lit up the F-117 for brief seconds as it approached, and then lit it up like a Christmas Tree when the Bomb Bay door opened and the UNV went active to guide the missiles.

Aircraft that happened to be flying the same route over an extended period. After a while, a few seemingly faint and random returns over the same path can clue you into the fact that you're aren't seeing something random.

1. You can't win, you can only break even.

2. You can only break even at absolute zero.

3. You'll never reach absolute zero.

Stealth doesn't equal invisibility, which makes your whole thermodynamics argument pointless.

Of course you can rage all you want, but it will not change the fact that "Stealth" is really RCS minimization and "Stealth Aircraft" have been spotted and shot down. If the F-117s carried ECM/ECCM packages, the one shot down over Serbia would not have bought it.

Only the most uninformed would assume that "Stealth" is something absolute. No one here is foolish enough to assume that, so don't be so dismissive.

Of course Stealth is RCS minimization. It wasn't meant to be invisibility, it was just meant to reduce the signature and make a classification as something else much more likely.
 
What the OP asks is ASB, but if it did happen, then Georgia would be split into several republics within the Russian federation. Think about there being three or four new Tatarstans, for example, but with the strife of a Chechnya.
 
Though I agree that Russia annexing Georgia is not possible, what about annexing South Ossetia and Abkhazia (on the grounds of protecting the locals and ethnic Russians living there from Georgian aggression)? Would Ossetians and Abkhaz support a union with Russia?
Even if they would, Russia is not going to stir up unnecessary trouble by formal annexation. Formal annexation is an outdated concept. Today powers don't care anymore what colour a place has on the map, but what amount of actual control they exercise about it.

They were given Russian passports because nobody recognizes Abhazia and South Ossetia independence and as part of the agreements when the Soviet Union broke up the Russians were the passport issuer of last resort for those former citizens of the Soviet Union who did not have passports.

If they did not have Russian passports none of the citizens of Abhazia and South Ossetia who refuse to accept citizenship in Georgia would be able to travel anywhere.
Oh, do they give passports to Somaliland citizens as well then? It surely wasn't purely humanitarian grounds that made Russia issue passports to Georgian citizens, but it provided a great excuse for marching in: “they are attacking Russians, surely we are justified to help them.”
 
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