Neither Poland and Lithuania want a return to the Soviet. My guess is they’ll fight.
The Crimea, on the other hand...Russians were their grandparents. The same with the Ukraine. I’m betting they become a Putin client state shortly.
Poland could very well retake Western Ukraine if the region is threatened by the Russians.
So if Putin sends tanks and infantry into Poland and Lithuania in order to ensure the safety of Russians and Ukranians from the training bases that Putin claims are there, is there anyone who can or will stop him?
Do these countries have a standing army that can defend against an invasion? Do these countries have Citizen soldiers with sufficient arms to hold off a takeover of their country by a Russian puppet regime?
In the end, the only defense against tyranny is a well armed citizenry.
Any country that takes arms from their citizens is inviting either an invasion or the establishment of a brutal tyranny.
Russians are their grandparents? The 78% of the country that's ethnic Ukrainian? No, actually Russians starved their grandparents killing millions.
Yunukovich promised when he ran that Ukraine would become a client of Europe and not Russia.
Yanuk lied to get elected.
As a result 75% of the reps in Parliament impeached him.