[ethbr0]

Exactly. It's not like this is the state department saying "We have proof, and are therefore going to invade a sovereign nation." (As previously)

It's, we have proof of this thing, so we're announcing it because that's possibly a good in and of itself.

And the concrete actions we're taking are deploying some troops to NATO countries that want to host them and sending weapons to Ukraine. Neither of these seem like unreasonable actions, considering the numerical disparity between local Russian units and NATO ones.