With No America to Stop Them

As one can see:

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday warned NATO against crossing a "red line" in Ukraine, underscoring that Moscow would have no choice but to respond while boasting about Russia's hypersonic missile development.

Putin said that the deployment of NATO troops or advanced missile systems on Ukrainian soil that could strike Moscow within minutes would be a step too far for Russia. NATO has not taken any steps along these lines.

"If some kind of strike systems appear on the territory of Ukraine, the flight time to Moscow will be seven to 10 minutes, and five minutes in the case of a hypersonic weapon being deployed. Just imagine," Putin said.

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The Canadians stationed here are monitoring the build-up of as many as 100,000 combat-ready Russian troops to the south, on the border with Ukraine. Belarus, which shares a border with Latvia, has also just started new military exercises along its frontier with Ukraine.

 

Canada does the bare minimum to prove to its load-bearing allies south of the border and in NATO that it is doing some actual work. 

The Canadian military is doing the best it can with what little it has but that won't matter with an unqualified, thoughtless and myopic government willing to withdraw at a moment's notice.

It's not like lives are depending on this or anything.

Also:

Poland’s Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski on Tuesday applied freshly adopted regulations and declared an area along the nation's border with Belarus off-limits to everyone except residents and people who live, work or study in the designated no-access zone.

Earlier Tuesday, the lower house of parliament, or Sejm, voted to amend the border law amid a conflict between Poland and Belarus. The president immediately approved the amended law, allowing for its implementation. The ban takes effect Wednesday for three months.