Thanks for the ping to this. They didn’t look that well trained and organized from the videos I saw. I also saw huge numbers of people in the streets who were willing to risk being beaten or shot and they didn’t panic and stampede out of there. Maybe I didn’t get the whole picture but I don’t trust Putin’s word for nuthin’.
I thought you would appreciate this story (it is from a Polish news source). Poland also asked for and got an Article 4 meeting with NATO.