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.
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.
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.
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 Formal annexation is an outdated concept.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.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?
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.”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.