Russian invasion of Ukraine

Some insights from that discussion on Lithuanian tv:

1. the sanctions that are being imposed now are too late - they should've been imposed a decade ago when Putin annexed Crimea. He is ready to endure even more of them. He's smart. He got it all calculated.
   
2. Economic ties work only with truly democratic countries - once you get too involved with regimes those ties start controlling you from taking real action.
   
3. In Crimea there were "mysterious green men" - russian fighters w/o russian uniforms and Putin told they weren't russians. Why NATO can't do the same? Military invasion without flags and say basically the same thing - it wasn't us. The thing is - Putin is a thug. A man of action. And while we discuss, read documents and articles, wonder if we can act this and that according to international laws, Putin just goes and fucks shit up. NATO was involved in a war with Serbia. Their pretext? War in the middle of Europe. We can do this again.