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Originally Posted by Hugh

I think (not based on evidence) that the neighbouring Slavic Countries May take a more "active" role if it gets worse for Ukraine - they all remember what it was like being part of the Soviet Hegemony as satellite/subjugated States.

The challenge will be if those Slavic States which are NATO members are attacked in turn by the Russians, they can then invoke the NATO Treaty which states it will help defend any member of NATO which is attacked.

Flip-side is that if they don’t do anything, they are probably pretty sure they’ll be next, so just Putin the problem off won’t solve anything medium to long term.

Not sure if pun intended but have a like

For sure, it's a race between the non military action from UK/EU/US/ROW to see if they can force a withdrawal or force a regime change before Putin takes Ukraine & focuses attentions elsewhere.