[hackeraccount]

NATO has no de jure or de facto commitment to Ukraine. Together and individually they've said repeatedly they don't want Russia going in to Ukraine and they've offered Ukraine support both military and non-military short of an actual commitment while at the same time threatening Russia with sanctions.

What exactly is stopping Putin from acting? Every day that goes by and Putin fails to act is it better to say "NATO is losing it's shit" or "Putin is afraid to act and is trying to find a way to declare victory without the burden of acting"

[daniel-cussen]

Nothing is stopping Putin from acting, he is acting. It's a menace. He has the option of acting--he can--but at the moment he's getting all kinds of results without actually declaring a war.

He's winning the war before it even begins.