All good points. I guess I probably couldn't have pointed out Kuwait on a map back in '91 (I was 16 or so) before the Iraqis invaded.
My second point still stands, though. If the NATO RRF is deployed and gets its butt kicked, will the public stand for round two, especially if it means full mobilization (including the draft) is put into effect, tax hikes to pay for a large-scale conventional war, etc.? Instead of a shooting war, we might be looking at a new Berlin crisis situation, with a new wall and highly militarized border zone going up to separate Russia's new conquest and its nearest free neighbor.
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