Germany halts Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline after Russia sends troops into eastern Ukraine

And so it begins. I was hoping Putin would pull back and complain that that the West was overreacting and he never was going to invade. But ... it didn't work out that way.

Now our big problem is going to be either letting him succeed or making this so painful he wants to get out but doing it in such a way he can still do it (i.e. he can't lose too much face or he won't be able to do it politically).