NATO warns Russia

Charlie Campbell has a Time article about a feeble warning:

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned Moscow that any further escalation in the Ukraine would have "dire consequences", warning Russia that any further intervention in the Ukraine would be a “historic mistake”, and has urged Moscow to pull back the tens of thousands of troops currently amassed on the Ukraine’s southern and eastern borders.
“I urge Russia to step back and not escalate the situation in the eastern Ukraine,” Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Paris, France during a seminar on NATO reform, according to the BBC.
Hundreds of pro-Russian demonstrators seized and barricaded themselves inside government buildings in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Luhansk on Sunday night, chanting “Russia! Russia!” and calling for “peacekeepers” to be sent in from across the frontier.
However, fifty people left a state security service building seized by pro-Russian activists in Luhansk overnight, the nation’s state security service (SBU) has said.
A truce was agreed following negotiations between protesters and officials, and comes after the SBU accused those inside of wiring the building with explosives and holding sixty people hostage, charges denied by the protesters. The demonstrators are demanding a referendum to facilitate the secession of eastern provinces from the Ukraine to join Russia, in a similar vein to what recently took place in the Crimea.
Recently, a brawl erupted inside the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev after a Communist leader accused nationalists of adopting extreme tactics and so playing into the hands of Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is refusing to recognize the authorities in Kiev that took power after pro-Kremlin President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted following months of street protests.
Yanukovych fled Kiev for Russia in February of 2014 after more than a hundred people died in unrest triggered initially by his refusal to sign an tariff agreement with the European Union and to, instead, pursue closer ties with Russia.

Rico says ooohhh, 'dire consequences'... Sorry, that's feeble.