[kristinn]

Meanwhile at the White House they're watching the NCAA men's basketball tournament:

Matt Lehrich Verified account ‏@Lehrich44
.@dcfooter starting to get excited about @MercerBears. Nervous @evoyard? cc @pfeiffer44
2:11 PM - 21 Mar 2014

Matt Lehrich ‏@Lehrich44 · 26m
@JesseLehrich @dcfooter @MercerBears @evoyard @pfeiffer44 BIG bucket there for #52 aka Lefty Ott
2:15 PM - 21 Mar 2014

[Genoa]

Pooty knows how to time this all for maximum advantage.

[corkoman]

Now THAT is a sign of weakness!

Dosvidanya Kyev!

[b4its2late]

I hope O had Duke in the final 4.

[Samogon]

Ukrainian troops had time to prepare and reinforce the border. The morals are high, they are ready.

[muskah]

70 years ago this month the Soviet Union invaded Ukraine and killed thousands of Germans and captured thousands more,”liberating” Ukraine. History repeats??

[tcrlaf]

Another interesting tweet: Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR · 1h #Ukrainian ship “Cherkasy” crew trying 2 move sunk by Russian troops ships in #Donuzlav lake in order 2 get access 2 the sea -@Euromaidan PR Not gonna happen without heavy equipment. The Russians sank a cruiser there, not a barge, for a reason, I think.

[grania]

I wish we had a President who would amass troops along our southern border.

[TangledUpInBlue]

Crimea was so obvious, I think he wanted Eastern Ukraine all along.

[GeronL]

The beast of the east is still hungry and the lion tamer has left the gate open and gotten a new job at a toll booth

[tcrlaf]

The Ukraine Russia border is over 1400 miles long.

WHERE along that border are these 20,000 troops? Despite the hysteria, 20,000 troops in a country as large as Ukraine isn’t going to do much. And I’ll bet they aren’t aligned toward Kiev.

Donetsk or Kherson, where there have been clashes between Russians and Ukrainian nationalists, however?

[Tallguy]

20,000 is a division-plus or a small corps. Not really enough to go deeply into the Ukraine even if we assume there won’t be a lot of opposition.

Like the US in Iraq, the Russians might be able to slice & dice in the opening phase, but once they ‘go static’ then the real problems begin.

[tips up]

They are just there for some R&R. No story here. Move along. What is Michele wearing today in China?

[HereInTheHeartland]

Who cares about WWIII. What we really want to know how is Obama’s NCAA bracket working out.

[Husker24]

I kept reading before Russia had 80,000 troops on the border, sounds like most went home. Putin’s not going to invade Eastern Ukraine with a measly 20,000.