How far are NATO and Russia Preparared to go...

[Mortblanc]

The present NATO conference is to determine how much of Europe NATO is willing to give up.

The alliance made a mistake in allowing eastern block nations into the alliance and now realize they should never have done so, especially with the terms of the "all for one, one for all and devil take the hindmost, for us or against us" terms of the NATO treaty.

How many lives is NATO willing to give up to insure the Ukrainian leaders can continue raping the economy of their own country?

Europe, and NATO, is not willing to accept the casualty numbers that a conventional war with Russia would demand, while Putin has spent 10 years winding up the Russian people to a patriotic fervor like none since WW2. Readying them for sacrifices equal to the Great Patriotic War.

They are not fighting the "west", Germany, GB or the US, they are fighting the resurgence of Nazism.

Putin's speeches are not oriented toward economics, diplomacy or negotiation, they are appeals to the spirit of the Russian people to stand against the new fascist leaders that are coming against them, and no one in the "west" seems to be hearing that part of his message.