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There is a reason Russia picked now to finally make this move. Ukraine isn't in NATO, so unless NATO grants them an emergency membership they aren't protected under article 5. Because of the political situation in the US, combined with being on the losing end of 2 very unpopular and expensive wars, there is absolutely zero political will for another armed conflict. Especially one that doesn't have anything to do with rhe US directly.

This is mostly about testing the waters for moving into all of the other former soviet republics. If you are going to let them take Ukraine, why wouldn't they be allowed to take Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan,and places like that? The ultimate goal being The Baltic states. Who are NATO members, but Putin's government has stated multiple times that they have no right to exist free of Russia.

This is the modern day equivalent of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. If you let them have it, it will only embolden them. Germany was absolutely not prepared to fight in 1938, and either would have had to back down, and thus their Government would have collapsed, or gone to a war they were guaranteed to lose, had the West shown any spine.