Should NATO be folded in favor of a European Union unified command?

[Husar]

I don't think that Merkel is going to completely cave just yet. I hope not. This isn't the last of Putin's hubris. He will start a war and it will be a big one. That's what he wants

That's complete buffergobble. You kept scaring us of the red tide for >50 years and it never came. After the Cold War we found out that they never really wanted to attack after Stalin and even took quite a few actions to prevent a huge (nuclear) war.

The US stationed nuclear missiles all around the USSR in rather close proximity and when they tried the same on Cuba, the US threw a hissy fit and threatened to destroy the world. The USA finance a number of politically active NGOs in Russia and Russia pays none in the USA, but Russia is the aggressive one here. Yeah, right...

Not to forget that not all Russians support Putin and he may actually lose a lot more support if he starts conquering countries left and right because Russians also like to think of themselves as the good guys. If we start handing him excuses left and right, we just make it easier for him. Starting a war is a pretty good excuse. If he does go much further I might agree with you, but so far he has just made some steps towards joining Crimea to Russia, where a majority want to be Russian anyway. But maybe if he conquers all of Europe, we can finally get our own internet and become free from Big Brother and his total surveillance. And a 13% flat income tax also sounds pretty nice...