User blog comment:Local Mafia Boss/Crimea Crisis/@comment-4621372-20140302185258

Russia will back down, or else. He knows that NATO has no choice here but to defend Ukraine- if they don't, they're done as a defensive organization as they've just proved they are useless against Russia. He also knows that NATO is quite aware that in conventional warfare in Ukraine, the Ruskies will already win- and the UN will be of no help, of course, since both sides will just use their veto against the other. So he knows that NATO will at this point be preparing a few 150-kt nukes to drop on Moscow. And he's not stupid...