[ClearCase_guy]

Maybe taunting them and calling Putin weak has made the "regional power" feel like it needs to make a statement.

Obama is an ass clown.

[no-to-illegals]

since they have been wrong many times before ... they could maybe get one right.

[EEGator]

Time for some passive aggressive Obama blather.

[molson209]

The only place the Cold War never ended was in Putin’s head

[NonValueAdded]

Yeah, but they’re doing it out of weakness, so it’s ok.

[2ndDivisionVet]

And Poland and Romania and Azerbaijan and Balarus and Moldova and Finland....

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Thanks Captain Obvious. (Not you, Kristinn).

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Well, duh !

[Obadiah]

The only people left in the world who take Obama seriously are the leftists who still believe they have to prop this guy up, everybody else gets the fact that Obama is a weak joke.

[no-to-illegals]

Kristinn, my best guess is on the new moon March 30.

[FreeReign]

A new classified intelligence assessment concludes it is more likely than previously thought that Russian forces will enter eastern Ukraine, CNN has learned. Two administration officials described the assessment but declined to be identified due to the sensitive nature of the information.

Two things majorly wrong here.

If this is true then administration officials are leaking "classified intelligence".

When one(Obama) predicts that somebody(Putin) is likely to do something(invade), then one increases the chances that the person would carry out that action.

[Rapscallion]

“This has shifted our thinking that the likelihood of a further Russian incursion is more probable than it was previously thought to be,”

Poland is calling up reserves. Others will soon follow. Putin is a new Stalin. Putin senses no opposition from a weakened leaderless America.

[kristinn]

This article by James Rupert at the Atlantic Council explains how/why Russia might take southern Ukraine

[TigersEye]

It’s good that the media is reporting this since 0bungles doesn’t do intel briefings.

[tomkat]

Fore .. !

[annalex]

Let’s not forget the signs of lack of resolve and disorganization coming from Ukraine. They did not put up a fight anywhere, — that in itself may be interpreted as a calculation that they should not be viewed as belligerent, making help from the West more likely to materialize. But now with the assassination of a Right Sector leader apparently by the Interior ministry — which is supposed to arrest people and put them on trial and not just murder them, — we understand that the Ukrainian government simply lacks coherence and professionalism. If so, from Putin’s perspective, the time to invade is now.

[Star Traveler]

And Obama will do NOTHING EFFECTIVE to stop Putin!

[iontheball]

Putin’s foray in taking Crimea was so easy why should he stop there?

[DallasDeb]

Ukraine is not a NATO member. Other of the Baltic states are. I will be stunned if Putin goes after a NATO member. The question is, if he does, how will NATO react? If it doesn’t respond, then Putin goes for broke. He won’t stop til all of Europe (except maybe GB) is under his control. I think he will go after Israel before he goes after a NATO nation. Maybe not directly, but someone else will take advantage of Russie flexing her muscles (like Mussolini and Japan) and attack Israel and Putin will “protect” Israel. Oooo. Interesting times we are a-livin’ in! Worrisome thing for me is that I have a son in the USAF. God is in control—I keep telling myself.

[Mariner]

I just want to know if there is real intel on Russia being positi9oned to move on the Baltics.

If that is the case, and I doubt it, we'd have a whole new ball game and war is coming.