 Again, everybody, why did he do nothing? Because he was waiting. He didn't want to do something if it was unnecessary. But NATO continued to move towards making Ukraine one of its vassal states. And what do you get? You get Putin having to respond. Amazing. Contrary to the promises that James Baker made about the Iron Curtain nations, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, they all entered in 2004. They weren't supposed to become part of NATO at all.