NPR Wants Americans to Be Worried About Russia and Ukraine...

 So, Russia is moving some of there military around, it happens to be close to Ukraine, and everyone is...concerned:

[Ukraine Minister of Foreign Affairs] Dmytro Kuleba estimates that Russia has between 100,000 and 130,000 troops amassed at Ukraine's border and is capable of mounting an invasion at short notice.

Ukraine and the United States are threatening crippling sanctions if it does. Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine never be allowed to join NATO.

While military forces are marshaling on both sides of the border, diplomatic efforts continue in an effort to defuse the situation.

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At a tense meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Monday, representatives for Russia, Ukraine and the United States traded barbs but didn't come to any agreement on a path forward.

Kuleba said Ukrainian officials have been busy preparing against any invasion but have deliberately gone about it quietly to avoid sparking panic in the country and hurting the economy.

Still, he said, the threat was real. And it went beyond just Ukraine's own interests.

"If Russia succeeds here in Ukraine, that will send a clear message to everyone who wants to rewrite rules on which the world is based, that this is possible," he told NPR. "That the United States and the democratic coalition led by the United States are incapable to maintain the current world order. That they are weak. And if you behave in a bold, aggressive way, you will eventually succeed."

"So, for all Americans, all I can say is that Ukraine is fighting this war for eight years. We have never requested American boots here on the ground. We always said we are fighting this war. This is our land. These are our people.

"We don't need your boots on the ground, but help us to fight this war diplomatically, militarily. And we will defend the current world order led by the United States and other democratic countries in this part of the world."

Not sure how a country can help "militarily" without "boots on the ground" unless the US bombed Russia (not likely) or sells Ukraine weapons (that would be a "yes").

Also, what exactly is this "current world order" Kuleba refers to? Is it a world where America only protects it's business partners? Is it an order where America refuses vaccines to essentially all of Africa because the countries unless they pay? 

To paraphrase what I've said before: saber-rattling in a global economy makes littles sense. In Sony refused to sell their TVs through Walmart, Walmart is not going to send their employees over to Sony's headquarters in Tokyo with weapons to force them to renegotiate. Even Kulebra recognizes this; he wants the US to get involved but not in a way that would avoid "hurting the economy!"

P.S.: The United States have a crazy amount of bases around the world, why aren't there any articles about how threatening that can be?