The Warsaw Pact

The nations that the USSR subjugated as members of the late Warsaw Pact are rightly concerned that Vladimir Putin may not yet be sated in his territorial ambitions. These former slave states loath Putin and see him as an incarnation of at least a potential Russian Napoleon and more fearfully, possibly a new Stalin. No one venerates freedom more than those who remember the bitter bread of oppression, and the people of Eastern Europe recall the feel of the Russian boot. The Ukraine (and Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, and the other formerly manacled countries) love their liberty and are willing to fight to preserve it. The problem is that without the backing of the West and most importantly, US military might, these small nations can not hold off Russian forces, who if Putin orders, will overwhelm them, with bloodshed and loss of life by freedom fighters being ultimately futile. With the casualty-averse nature of Western leadership including Obama, liberty may soon fall under a sentence of death.