If there is another big hitter on the block we may see our elected leaders maintain a more realistic military posture and think twice before having a go at seemingly inadequate countries which just don't conform to the Western Liberal ideal.
The basic concept of how we have been going with our defense has been founded on a sound principle. Unfortunately the analysis of when we could go down that route was wrong, actually just plain naive.
Whether we can recover enough, or the lefty's come to that realization in time is another matter. If we do then we can thank Putin for acting to early.
I saw piccies of those trucks and they're pretty big. Looks like about 280 platoons of aid.
According to one of the BBC articles I read, it looks like the Russians have been playing silly buggers with the Red Cross. Is there no limits to how low they will go.