They gonna bring in a bunch of GI Jackasses to sit back and control equipment so they can force even more Ukrainians into the meat grinder.

What a fucking chump you would have to be to take that job. Clearly the US sees it's own military forces as important enough to be a nuclear tripwire, but these guys are completely erasable for a reason. When they do die, the US will act like these are just enterprising non-state actors who should have known better.