NATO will host a major Summit next week in Vilnius, Lithuania and frankly, NATO is scared. They have erected a full Division of PATRIOT air defense missiles around the country, to "protect the Summit" while NATO bigshots have their meeting.
At this Summit, the questions about the corrupt armpit of Europe, Ukraine, becoming a NATO member will be discussed. But Ukraine is unable to join NATO because it is presently in an active conflict with Russia.
What mechanism may be employed to thwart that obstacle to Ukraine joining NATO is not yet known, but the meddlesome, and aggressive, NATO alliance -- which long ago outlived its usefulness -- may just find a way to sneak it through.
The photo above was taken from a passenger jet as it landed in Vilnius yesterday. In it you can see several PATRIOT missile batteries active with missile launchers aimed at the sky.
Clearly, NATO fears that Russia may decide it has had enough of NATO meddling in Ukraine, and smash the Summit in one fell swoop.
(HT REMARK: If that happens, it seems to me that NATO will have brought it upon itself. I wouldn't shed a tear if all those Nazi collaborators in NATO got wiped out by Russia.)