We need to be honest with ourselves here: the West has zero capacity to confront Putin's aggression. NATO is an empty joke and the USA is now so dysfunctional that the Republican Party is Putin's greatest ally. In Europe Orban continues to do Putin's bidding by blocking all further aid to Ukraine and the EU does nothing except pay him off occasionally - which encourages him to keep playing the game. Putin may be playing a weak hand, but we're playing nothing at all. Our moronic complacency is why Putin will ultimately retake the Baltic nations post-Ukraine, and why the West is definitively finished.