Which Is More Powerful? Russia Or USA?

Exactly, Russia has more durability.

However I feel the US can knock the crap out of Russia.

 

Nah; that's not as easy as we tend to believe it. Russians are way stronger than what we give them credit for.

 

20 would be substantial considering that the Georgian airforce only had 22 planes at the start of the conflict.

 

They had a General get injured in battle as well. Not very impressive for their intelligence either. My guess is that the Russian military budget will only go up from the current 40 Billion as a result. They know how weak they are now.

 

I still didnt know why did the war happen...

 

geopolitics

 

Georgia’s army was able to deploy only four combat brigades of about 3,300 soldiers each.

At the start of the fighting, the Georgian Army’s First Brigade was in Iraq, and was airlifted home aboard American aircraft — but without their war-fighting gear. The Fourth Brigade was in training for the next rotation to Iraq. The Second and Third Brigades were in western Georgia, closer to Abkhazia than to South Ossetia, where the fighting started.

Only the First Brigade was up to NATO standards.

The Fourth Brigade was torn up in the fighting in South Ossetia.

The total number of Georgian troops was 30,000 of which 400 are estimated killed or missing.

 

So who have bigger losses?