1. The whole comprehensive plan is there and you are undermining it.
2. I recall a recurring discuss during the COld War was the question of whether, if the soviets ever started the tanks rolling, if they would claim they would stop at the German French border, thus avoiding danger of French nuclear response, or if they would just roll to the Atlantic.
THis was a question, because flipping West Germany with it's large economy and population and military from West to East would end NATO and allow Soviet domination over the whole world.
That is a threat to the US.
NOthing Putin can do can touch that.
Your link talks of US putting tanks in the BALTICS. That is insane.
I do not want fight a nuclear war over the Baltics.
Putin could take all three and it would not effect the Balance of Power.
NATO expansion was a mistake and a provocative one at that.
That's a nice opinion, Correll, but I don't agree with it. The main reason is appeasement doesn't work.
Friendly nations don't need to be appeased, they just negotiate. Enemies require appeasement and only ******* liberals, and apparently you, seem to think appeasing bullies and assholes like Putin and Kim Jong-un (and his father, Kim Jong-il) is a good thing.