re: #443 No Malarkey!

There is a big reason though. If Russia starts shelling major cities with artillery, huge numbers of Ukrainian civilians are going to die.

if that happens, NATO intervenes. There just is no way that NATO could watch something like that happening in Europe, within a stone’s throw of NATO countries, and not say, “We need to send a message, now, because 10 years from now, that could be Berlin or Warsaw.”