hmmmmmm.

But doesn't NATO have agreements with the Ukraine to help for its defense?

calls for some kind of military cooperation or integration. Sounds like a NATO foot in the door if you ask me.

NATO has no obligations to defend it.

then announced that there were no troops in Ukraine; which country annexed part of another and now has large numbers of troops at their border with Ukraine?

None of this has bothered you.

What is curious is that their puppet, Yankovitch is now whining that he made mistakes - and is unhappy that Russia took Crimea. http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014770813

NATO and the US have reacted very cautiously - as they should.

P.S. Your avatar has not spoken against any of this and has backed the Obama administration. Why not swap your avatar for a photo of Putin or some Indian leader you prefer?

nor is there a video -- it is just generals and peripheral leaders claiming there are 100K troops on the Ukrainian border.

Then there is fear mongering to scare Poland, Hungary et al as though they'll be under imminent attack.

If Russia wanted to gobble up any other part of Ukraine they'd have done it at the same time as Crimea. Why would they prolong the resistance from the world and risk more? So obviously, all they wanted was Crimea which is militarily and strategically extremely important to them and which probably was the primary reason for the CIA staged coup.

So, it is my opinion that NATO is appearing sillier and sillier with all the war mongering. If that bothers your MIC and oil company friends, too bad.

P.S. -- Just because I have a given avatar doesn't mean I agree with 100% of the positions of said avatar. Finally, I'm capable of deciding on my own choice of an avatar without suggestions from you or anyone else, thank you.

to see how many rail against Russia when its NATO doing the escalation talk in so many ways and Russia is trying to deescalate the situation.

I mean just how many ways have NATO(and the countries belonging to it) been poking at the big bear lately?

too dam far now.

there were joint military activities of all sorts being done with them, trade was being done as normal between countries, Russians went to Ukraine without visas, and so on.
They did this to themselves. Crimea and the agreement on Sevastopol, had that become a bone of contention, could have easily been solved diplomatically.
But Putin wanted those oil & gas reserves that might lie within the economic zone that could be claimed by Crimea. So he took it. Now he's choking on it. Too bad.

era and get all bent out of shape when NATO uses Cold War era language???

Ha.

The USD's status as reserve currency is not remotely threatened by anything Russia or any other supply region could do. Supply regions barely control themselves, much less anything having to do with the way the global economy works.
They catch, they don't pitch.

Other European countries and the other English diaspora countries are quite upset about Russia's recent behavior.

Eventually, the threats and the movement of troops to border regions may be forgiven, but Russia's military takeover of the territory of an independent country, Ukraine, will remembered for quite some time.

NATO was fairly somnolent, but now several NATO countries in Eastern Europe are very alarmed. I read that even Finland and Sweden are planning on strengthening their militaries--Russia staged a middle-of-the-night fake bomber attack on Sweden a few months ago. Swedish pilots were asleep, but NATO jets stationed in Denmark rose to face the Russians. Swedes and Finns were understandably upset by this Russian action. Both Sweden and Finland, neutral countries, now wish to become more active in the regional defense council for Scandinavia and more folks in both countries want to consider joining NATO now, not surprisingly.

When Russia acts aggressively militarily, they should not be surprised if their neighbors look for help.

or maybe some other NATO country
Prez/PM...?

Sweden and Finland. I didn't catch exactly why, but it makes sense now. Finland shares a boarder with Russia and Sweden really isn't that far from the Russian boarder either. I can understand if Russia pulled that kind of a stunt how it would push them from being neutral to have a more defensive strategy.

Of course we all know Russia wouldn't hurt a bone in anyone's body right?

Already. There are hundreds of US Nuclear bombs in Europe.