You are right. Make Georgia a second Afghanistan for the Russians.
If the Turks come to find they don’t like the bear on their border they would make a good staging area, and the Rooskies have a lot of pipeline to guard now.
It only took 18 years for them to forget why they had to change their name and flag.
If we only knew someone with insurgency experience, tactics, IEDs, etc., drumming fingers . . .