> Things get complicated when you go toe to toe with a nuclear superpower.

Especially one ruled by a egotistical madman with a grudge

That said, nato should have made huge show and noise about the Russian preparations around Ukraine directly causing nato to strengthen and beef up on the eastern boarder, and upped the troops on nato states massively. Things they are doing now. Those things should have been done before.

The sanction timeline is okay, the nato beefing up an communication around it was late.