For future reference, there’s a section on military strength that lists % of GDP dedicated to military expenditures. The GDP itself is expressed in dollars and can be found in the economic section. Multiplying the two against one another will at least give you a starting point for guessing who’s spending more on fielding a larger, more technically-advanced force. You should probably also find maps that include roads, railways and more-detailed topographical features because the one you used may tell me that Georgia is somewhere near something called the Black Sea, but it fails at telling me that Gori is a strategic crossroads or that there’s only one road from N. Ossetia into S. Ossetia through the Caucas mountain range.

In the meantime I’m going to make the educated guess that you’re just faking knowing about strategic-level warfare and the geopolitical consequences related to doing whatever it is you apparently think we should be doing.

I have a different take on this – as in it isn’t a surprise.