D - Fence

Pictured above are the Defense Ministers of Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Germany. Yes, I am a bit of a sexist, but then again that female British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, didn't back down in the early 1980's from Argentina's militancy.  Still, Russian President Vladimir Putin's macho foreign policy coupled with the fact that Russia is a lot bigger and a lot closer than Argentina does not give me a lot of solace as to how these ladies might respond to a similar belligerency ... particularly since the United States has its own equivocating wuss in the White House.

Witness: how much push-back has the West given Russia over what is currently happening in the Ukraine?