It is rather well known that the deployment of Nato soldiers to other Nato countries in peacetime serves more purposes than just training together and showing s

It is rather well known that the deployment of Nato soldiers to other Nato countries in peacetime serves more purposes than just training together and showing support. Russia knows well that if they do something on the borders of the eastern Nato countries they will anger not only that nation but they also risk killing young people from a number of other Nato countries at the same time, meaning that broad support for counter action will hopefully build very quickly compared to if only "some people in a former east block country got killed in an unfortunate accident" or "there was a border dispute" like in Ukraine. Some notes: - I support this. I am a trained soldier and if my country asks me I will come although I am old enough to realize it will hurt. I have read my history and history is not kind to pacifists - but see also my next point! - I absolutely do not like how Nato meddled in Afghanistan for about two decades. Defense allianse, not "attack alliance" or "do something vaguely good"-alliance is what I support. - I'm not sure if it will help in the short term. Russia is unpredictable and they are making a point of it. - On the other hand however maybe what we see is that it already works: Nato countries sees far less Russian aggression than Ukraine.