It aint the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog! Sorry for going bumper sticker on you but who has the willingness, ruthlessness, and strategic sense to actually employ their forces?
You can appreciate Putin’s strategery without approving of Putin. Plus, when you compare him to a vacillating whining immoral regulating gun grabbing anti carbon pro greenie western leader he appears to be VLAD!
Evidently NATO does, we just conducted military exercises in Ukraine, and Poland, and created a new reaction force to station forward, and now this article.
Putin does not have any military muscle to waste, if he ever engaged us then his military would be gutted, humiliated, and Russia would be left in dire straights trying to defend itself from it’s internal and Eastern threats.