@J.Wyllie, the laugh is on all of us. Russia is making a good profit from selling its military technology around the world, and some of it, especially defensive, is superior on the market. But that is to talk about irrelevancies. The problem is that the global security is falling apart. Instead of sticking with the UN SC resolution mechanisms, US and Europe have taken a decidedly opposite path. US first started to impose its domestic legislation on international affairs. After a while, most citizens were unable to distinguish between the international law and internationally agreed upon sanctions, and the purely domestic laws. Domestic laws are often result of lobby efforts, but the results for global security are grave. If every country decides to impose sanctions on another country, and apply them to all other countries that are not complying, you have a private-based set of "international regulations". The proliferation of these, as is the case with Iran, creates an unsustainable international order. Half private, half international --- it will not survive. What Russia is doing is the testament that the global security is getting worse, not better. It proves that West is not interested in the peace in Caucasus, but just the opposite, the arming of Georgia which supplies half the weaponry to terrorists across Caucasus. The sale of Russian arms is the prerogative of domestic law. But what has crept into it, is the internationalization of that law. Russia will be able to unilaterally punish those countries that supply Georgia with weapons. That can take form of various retaliatory moves in trade or foreign policy. Weakening of the international law is our loss. The fact that Russia decided to emulate this practice will further hurt what is left of the international law.