An excellent presentation of facts and the only possible conclusions therefrom. There are two unfortunately realities in addition: (i) there will always be stupid obtuse people that no amount of reality will sway, and (ii) the West continues to do far too little, far too late, to oppose Putin's expansionism. The big question, then, is this: after Putin succeeds in installing a puppet regime in Kyiv and spends a couple of years re-arming, will NATO do anything at all to attempt to aid the Baltic states or will NATO simple collapse because the USA, under the rule of the Republican Party, already have turned its back on Europe and left it to its own totally inadequate defenses?