It is noteworthy that the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist liberation army UNA-UNSO, which cooperated with German SS and military troops during the second world war, has played a not insignificant role in Georgias war against Russia.
UNA-UNSO is known for having close ties to NATOs Gladio network. Moreover, even though both Ukrainian European and US-American politicians denounce the Ukraines Pravy Sector as responsible for the sniper killings of 90 and the injuring of more than 500 in Kiev, the day before the armed coup, most analysts who who are read into NATOs Gladio network agree that it is overwhelmingly probable that it was not Pravy Sector but UNA-UNSO snipers who were hired to carry out the mass murder.
Unconventional Warfare the New NATO Doctrine Also against Russia. NATOs new military doctrine is based on unconventional warfare. As former NATO Admiral James G. Stavridis stressed during a 2013 Forestal Lecture, the developments in military technology have made a war of walls, which ended with the end of the cold war impossible. New warfare, stressed Stavridis, is based on asymmetric warfare.
Moreover, a classified training circular for US Special Forces, titled Special Forces Unconventional Warfare, TC 18-01, stresses that the United States, for the foreseeable future, will be predominantly involved in unconventional warfare. The training circular was published in nsnbc international and can be accessed HERE. James G. Stavridis also stressed, as already mentioned, that NATO considers its regime change in Libya as a teachable moment and model for future interventions.
Knowing that NATO planners are aware that a conventional, full-scale military confrontation with Russia, let alone a nuclear confrontation would not only be counter-productive but non-survivable; aware of the fact that the strategic balance would not afford either side the possible to emerge as a victor of a full scale confrontation; there is a pressing need to answer the question what function NATOs continued encirclement of Russia and posturing could have.
NATO advances one step at the time, maintaining and increasing the military pressure against Russia, knowing that Russia is as unlikely to mount a large scale military campaign as NATO. The purpose is to maintain pressure on Russia, economically, strategically, and to deny Russia an effective military counter-move while stressing its geopolitic sphere of interest, and increasingly also Russian republics with unconventional war.