Guardian: Reports " Russia moves troops to Belarus for joint exercises near Ukraine border...Move likely to stoke invasion fears as war games also planned near borders of Nato members Poland and Lithuania "
Lets Get Real:
One has to assume that Putin is bluffing, any ATTACK on a NATO Country would invoke Article 5, a attack on one is a attack on ALL. That mean WORLD WAR 3. One assumes Putin is doing this to remind the Biden Oval that the Russian have a lot of targets, if so its a VERY bad mistake. After Afghanistan Biden cannot afford to be seen as WEAK as in relationship to the Russians. If Putin wants to play hardball the Biden Oval should send in US troops to protect the West of the Ukraine and draw a line between the West and the East. As stated in previous post the West is waiting for some kind of action by Putin, he in reverse might be waiting for a FORMAL HELL NO from NATO to the Russians demands, that the Ukraine never becomes part of NATO and that the Eastern Nato States will remove their NATO TROOPS and equipment. PUTIN must know he can only go so far, of course the question ha to be asked, has he gone CRAZY and has started to believe his own PR, that would be a major worry. The German Foreign Minister is seeing the Russian tomorrow, one hopes that the German will be CLEAR to the Kremlin, an attack on the Ukraine could lead to the cut off their new gas pipeline, whatever the COSTS to the West. This would hurt Russia and the economic sanctions will be hard for the Russian people to cope with, even the rich ones, Putin's friends.
