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That is a huge factor, but I think without these precision munitions, it wouldn't matter nearly as much.  I'm trying to think of the last major conflict where both sides were highly motivated with good morale.  Often only one side is really motivated, and it matters.

I disagree. The Baltic states are not nothing countries. Ukraine has shown itself to be a country. The Eastern bloc countries have been solid additions. There have been no wars on their soil. These countries have to be countries with stable constitutional systems.
If only large states joined, small state democracies would be swallowed up by neighboring authoritarian states, and the world would be back where it was in the 1800s, and 1900s. NATO helps preserve member states, and world peace. Putin did not attack a NATO country. If he attacks a NATO country he risks annihilation of his person and his state.
Without NATO Eastern European countries were under constant threat of Soviet/Russian aggression. In 1968 5,000 tanks and 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia to crush a brief period of liberalization in the then communist country. Like Ukraine, Czechoslovakia was not a NATO member.
The NATO alliance, for its member states, stabilized a continent, brought peace, and accompanying economic development to states that were vulnerable to attach from others over centuries. If Ukraine had been a stable democracy before Putin gained power and were a NATO member, this war wouldn't be happening.

USSR and Warsaw Pact has been dead for 31 years. People really need to stop bringing it up. 

And yes, those countries to the United States- are nothing, worthless, meaningless, insignificant countries. They add zero value to the US. They are of zero strategic interest to the US. Do we share a border with any of them? Oh why no, they are all halfway around the world from us. Do they control massive quantities of natural resources that the US needs/wants like Saudi Arabia? Why no. They don't. Are they massive trading partners with US like say China? Why no, they aren't. 

Ukraine has never been a stable democracy. That is the dumbest what if I've ever heard. It's been an independent country since 1991, and it is literally one of the most corrupt countries on planet earth and has been for 30+ years going. And it still is. It's current President that everyone seems to be stanning over has close ties to one of the richest oligarchs in Ukraine- and his name was all over the leaked Pandora Papers- which proved beyond a shadow of a doubt he took payoffs from said oligarch and stashed tens of millions of dollars offshore to avoid tax. Said President has also banned media networks he doesn't like and has imprisoned political opponents without due process. And since 2014 Ukraine has effectively been a US colony that the US has largely controlled by dangling money and weapons over there head in order to get them to comply with US wishes/demands.

We're scheduled to visit Estonia on our cruise.  The dropped Finland for some reason.

Finland hates them some Russia and is itching to kill some Russians.

If they hadn't canceled that port, I'd be switching cruise destinations anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7hOpT0lPGI

So we needed a brainiac from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder giving a TED TALK tipping us off that Nuclear War is bad,VERY BAD.Thanx for that incredible bit of insightful information I'm sure kamela will let Sleepy Joe know when she's done deleting her tweets

Finland hates them some Russia and is itching to kill some Russians.

If they hadn't canceled that port, I'd be switching cruise destinations anyway.

The stories of the WWII era Russian invasion of Finland are legendary. Quick skiers dart past, toss a grenade in a tank, quietly slip away.