Actually it would be no surprise if American “Advisors” were involved in Giorgia. That’s nothing new and it has happened many times before. For example the US involvement in Vietnam started with so called Advisors.
Sure, Putin is hardly your friendly and happy next door Imperialist, but neither are the US of A. The US lost it’s regained moral high ground with the Iraq invasion and Russia any it might had left with the bloody conflict in Chechnya.
The question is only if they once again drag the rest of us into a period of saber-rattling and nuclear arms races?