Considering the price of mobilizing all those people and equipment, anyone with common sense and basic understanding of economics should've known an attack was imminent the second Putin started deploying military next door. The western world suddenly forgot Russians never mean what they say (unless they declare violent or criminal intent), and Putin will do whatever he's set on. I honestly was taken aback by how many people suffer from cranial-rectal inversion! Pleading for peace even after the attack begins. No leader staging an invasion or waris going to waste money backing out, especially to the whims of unprepared politicians and the damned public.