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Originally Posted by Daradon
While the US is still the worlds biggest power, I think a lot could depend on how Europe decides to act, especially the new NATO states as someone noted earlier. There's a lot of countries in that area that should take this issue seriously, 10 alone that were part of the Warsaw pact.
Not saying they have a ton of military might, but I think diplomacy is going to be the weapon of choice anyway.
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This would be a test of how strong NATO is at that point. NATO states an attack on any NATO member constitutes a declaration of war on all member nations. How enforceable that is depends entirely on the member nations collective political will. If the US does nothing when a NATO member is threatened though, worse case we could see NATO dissolving as it'll be seen as nothing more than a paper tiger.
Ukraine has existing treaties with the western powers to come to it's defense should anyone invade as a condition for getting rid of their thousands of nukes back at the end of the cold war. Now we are seeing people justifying the invasion of the Crimea as "They're Russian speaking anyways". Same justification Neville Chamberlain used in WWII with German aggression. The Sudetenlandskaya as nik- pointed out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Betrayal
Asia has a great example flash point where this could happen and the government there has been building up.
Russia continues to move more troops in. Count is now at 6000.
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-...ps-to-ukraine/
Popular mechanics is calling this the perfectly executed annexation of a country.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...raine-16545791