Where was NATO in that? Ukraine is not Western Europe. You're not going to be seeing T-72 tanks rolling through Berlin, Paris, London, etc.
Nato is not just Britain and France my guy:
NATO is an Alliance that consists of 28 independent member countries. Country by country, this page offers an overview of the links to national information servers and to the website of national delegations to NATO.
Member countries
The statement "do you not see Ukraine" is a nod to the advantages that countries who are a part of NATO receive. Remember, the civil unrest in Ukraine was the result of economic warfare over Ukrainian industry. The EU didn't want to pony up the money needed, so Putin swooped in and made a deal. The economic and military protections afforded by NATO membership are priceless and necessary for Russian border states:
Marines are prepositioning battle tanks, artillery and logistics equipment inside Norwegian caves as the U.S. pushes to station equipment near the NATO-Russia frontier.
"Any gear that is forward-deployed both reduces cost and speeds up our ability to support operations in crisis, so we're able to fall in on gear that is ready-to-go and respond to whatever that crisis may be," Col. William Bentley, operations officer for the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, said in a statement Friday on the Norwegian deployment that called the caves classified.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/18/politics/u-s-tanks-artillery-norwegian-caves/