They are only sending a brigade sized force over there. 200 armored vehicles against Russia is just a speed bump.
Putin won't blink. He craves a confrontation with the weakling obama and the pusillanimous west. He knows NATO is a toothless old lion and he aims to prove it.
5000 troops? vs Russia? THAT’S IT? That’s not a threat, that’s an pre-emptive offer of surrender.
Putin is bluffing because his military would be quickly destroyed when confronting us on the battlefield, and Putin would be left defenseless as his country breaks apart in factions and secession, and the buzzards like China, would pick at the remains, and of course Putin would be put to death.
Putin doesn’t have a military capable of sustained, large invasions anymore.
Now the slave nations and occupied geography that kept the evil empire threatening NATO, are part of NATO.
[The Pentagon and Congress apparently think Vladimir Putin is a bluffer and, faced by U.S. toughness, will back down.]
OK, how many inches of dirt do I pack around windows? 18 inches reduces radiation by 50%?
meanwhile, the Crimea, the dust up that precipitated the Putin gambit in Ukraine, remains part of Mother Russia
all that follows is theater
That’s right Pat, let’s just bend the knee to Tsar Putin.
Selfie Soldiers: Russia Checks in to Ukraine
http://youtu.be/2zssIFN2mso
(Tracking Russian soldiers movement into Ukraine via their pictures posted to social media.)