I wonder if the many countries opposed "Desert Storm 2" (lol) had done that outside the US and UK embassies, would those staff have seen the light and staged a coup back home?
My message to my depressed Leeds supporting mate last week just after we beat Chelsea and they'd lost to Everton:
"We got lucky today. If there's anyone I'd want to play in the league it would still be Saints."
The media like to portray Putin as insane. He would be insane to directly attack a NATO country and I reckon the chances of that are zero.
Trying to take Kiev at the start was sensible (cut the head off the snake). His aims after that failure are unknown but if the Western rhetoric is true it's a bloody drawn out war for years until pre 2014 borders are restored.