[Paladin2]

The on the ground fact that Russia loaded many places in Eastern Europe with Russians over the years causes multiple problems on the ground (see Kaliningrad Oblast).

[realcleanguy]

Babylon has fallen

[Mariner]

The author is trying to make a big deal out of an "agreement" that was never intended to provide a military guarantee, and was never presented to the US Senate as a treaty as it was well know at the time it would not garner even a handful of votes.

It was widely derided as a fools errand.

[dfwgator]

signed by President Clinton, British Prime Minister John Major, and Russian President Boris Yeltsin,

AKA, "Moe, Larry and Curly".

[rbmillerjr]

NATO will fight over Estonia. Putin has guaranteed this with his Crimea antics.

The NATO military are will decimate Russia’s conscripts so fast it will make the Marianas Turkeyshoot look like a split decision.

Stupid Russians trying to gain cridibility like a third rate Iraq...cracks me up.

Good morning to the “Kremlin-based Borscht Brigade”.