Conventional war returns to Europe

Europe woke up to a major war on Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a violent, multipronged invasion of Ukraine, the democracy that sits between NATO countries and Russia.

Now that it is clear Putin will sacrifice lives and Russian wealth to reconstitute parts of the old Soviet Union, European and US troops are scrambling to fortify the wall of NATO countries that borders Ukraine – and the fear that he could move farther, past Ukraine, is now