[dragonwriter]

> The goal is to prevent a NATO giant air carrier on its borders.

If their goal is to prevent Germany, Poland, Norway, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Alaska from existing and being (part of, in the last case) NATO members, well, invading Ukraine seems a rather improbable route to achieving that.

All they’ve managed so far is to make that worse by adding Finland to the mix, and increasing NATO deployments to the existing eastern flank members, and increasing defense expenditures across NATO.