The future of NATO teeters on the veracity of President Obama's statements on the Crimean Crisis Its the state of strategic anarchy i had referred to in my 2003 article: --- Its a harsh test for US-NATO-EU Destabilisation Template in Ukraine-Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Denies Role in earlier similar Destabilisation Templates If NATO fails this is failure and reversal of Destabilisation Template as successfully applied against the Russian heartland by Atlantic rimland since 1979 Afghan War. It appears that it is the FALL OF NATO about to commence in the uncertain Ukrainian STEPPES . It is like RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR OF 1920 AND A DEFINING MOMENT FOR BOTH RUSSIA AND EUROPE