So Is Russia going to get the same kind of treatment we got in Iraq and Afghanistan?? However we lost a hell of a lot more men in Vietnam in shorter time span..
The Russians know all about Afghanistan debacles. The Russians will bear any cost though to stop this provocative, catastrophically destabilizing aggressive expansion of NATO. Look at the map, Ukraine would put NATO armored divisions ready to drive across the border into the very heart of Russia. Remember the domino theory. The Russians have seen the domino effect transform Poland, Hungary, the Baltic States, Bulgaria, East Germany and Czechoslovakia from allies to virulently anti Russian NATO members. The Ukrainian domino would be the last to fall before the Russian state itself begins to crumble. Putin or the Russian strongmen who’ll replace him will never allow this to happen regardless of the cost.