The mystery is why was Iran unready?  Iran has had years of US hostility dating from the Carter years and decades of observing Washington carry out the Zionist neoconservatives program of eliminating 7 Muslin countries.  Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Lebanon, with the target now on Iran and Saudi Arabia awaiting in the wings.

Why was Putin unready?  Despite the warning of the US using a color revolution in Georgia to invade South Ossetia, Putin was caught off guard by Washington's overthrow of the Ukrainian government and installation of a Washington puppet.  For eight years Putin watched the buildup of a large Ukrainian army and failed to build one of his own.  The Russians, Muslims, and Chinese seem incapable of understanding the Wolfowitz doctrine of  Washington's hegemony, or are they simply unable to face reality?