My dark horse is the US intervening on behalf of resource rich Azerbaijan. There is ample recent precedent for the US to back Sunni Muslims against Orthodox Christians as in Kosovo and Bosnia, or to undermine the interests of Orthodox Christian minorities in Muslim majority countries as in the cases of Iraq and Syria. One senses a rather strong antipathy toward Christians in general, and the Orthodox in particular in recent US and NATO operations. This being the case, look for Mother Russia to finally step up to The Great Satan in a showdown of truly Biblical proportions
