I don’t believe the US will go to war directly with Russia. The US Military is rapidly expanding Train and Equip missions with US Allies, which is exactly what they’ve been doing with the Georgians for the past ?? years.

If anything, the US will work though proxies to hamstring and bog the Russian down in protracted insurgency, Just as the Russian and it’s proxies have been doing to the Americans in Iraq. What comes around can definitely go around.

It stands to reason that the same skills sets utilized for COIN training can be utilized to TRAIN insurgents.

I’m Curious, what is the background of the 1000 marines that were, until recently, posted in Tbilisi?