Region is destabilizing as we speak and without strong NATO presence it's gonna get whole lot worse. The problem is, NATO doesn't exist anymore beside the name (consider recent French/Greek actions against Turkey) and none of it's members is really interested in sorting things out. If Belarus is eventually flipped completely to Russian influence (this is happening now; Belarus was kind of no-mans-land for the last 30 years, but it's changing to Russian advantage) then things will get much more dire real fast.

Region is destabilizing as we speak and without strong NATO presence it's gonna get whole lot worse. The problem is, NATO doesn't exist anymore beside the name (consider recent French/Greek actions against Turkey) and none of it's members is really interested in sorting things out. If Belarus is eventually flipped completely to Russian influence (this is happening now; Belarus what kind of no-mans-land for the last 30 years, but it's changing to Russian advantage) then things will get much more dire real fast.