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I don't mean supplying them Weapons. I mean boots on the ground sending our troops in to those countries.
Nato “An attack on one ally will trigger a response from the whole alliance."
A resurrected Soviet Union will represent an existential threat to both NATO and the US. They will embolden, enable and assist the totalitarian style governments they set up (in the Western Hemisphere) during the Cold War to threaten the US.
Putin will not stop trying to expand even with the retaking of former Soviet Republics.
We might find out. My guess is Putin will advance on one of the countries you mentioned. And use the same rhetoric that if NATO intervenes he will use nukes if necessary. Then it comes down to what NATO does next. Does Europe want to get into a ground war or worse just to save those Eastern block nations? So far those countries do not want to have any economic issues or lose their Russian oil supplies. So they are slapping Putin on the wrist. That is only going to embolden him.
To be fair, neither is the United States. America will not cut off Russian oil supplies to the US.
There are other calculations to make regarding global hegemony. Upon Russia's hypothetical invasion of a NATO nation, the question changes from "how much do we care about Nation X" to "are we willing to allow our power in the world to decrease, while allowing the power of Russia and China to rise?"
I think we have already decided that. And we are willing to let Russia and China fill the void of the worlds police. However there are consequences to that and we are seeing in Ukraine.
Not yet. But Ukraine does and once they are back under Russian control Russia will have a border with Poland.
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