The degree of certainty with which American officials are now characterising Russia's intensions towards Ukraine suggests that something has changed over the past 24 to 48 hours.
Late on Friday, a senior defence official at the Pentagon in Washington said that additional US troops will be sent to eastern Europe.
For a few weeks now there's been a suggestion that President Putin would not want to upstage China by mounting an invasion during the Winter Olympics.
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