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Originally Posted by Moonbiter Yes. The interesting thing is that when they went into Poti, they confiscated about a dozen American military vehicles. Not Georgian, American. These were apparently awaiting shipment out of Georgia, after having been used in "training exercises." Nothing major, though. Some four Hummers and some trucks, the point is this: What the hell is the US military doing having "exercises" in Georgia? What sort of message does that send? I was an army-man for a long time, and I can't for the life of me remember when a non-NATO nation agreed to let the US practice warfare in their yard, especially on the border to Russia. <snip>

Well - joint military exercises is nothing new, so can't understand your surprise in there being US material on Georgian grounds. In fact due to this conflict, Russia and NATO and Russia and Sweden have cancelled joint exercises.
It isn't strange - IMO - especially given the US/NATO attitude towards Georgia.

As for the WW3 reference, then I do not think so either, lest the conflict does indeed spread and the follow up events is that Russia will make some sort of pre-emptive military strike towards Poland's "Missile Shield".

I am however a bit "concerned" about the occupying of Piot, if the town is as economical important to Georgia as reports seem to indicate.