Not about us. It is about Putin. He wont respect any Democrat President. He will play a GOP-E President. He will respect a Reagan type President.
Why is it that every time since Carter that we have had a Democrat in the White House, we end up on verge of a World War with Russia (Clinton - Kosovo, Obama - Ukraine). It is because the Russians wont back down when they know their opponent will. Simple as that. What you want right now is suicidal. But I am sure we will soon hear about mass graves in Ukraine and see images of concentration-like camps.
Nobody is on the verge of world war with Russia, where do you get these crazy ideas?
You think the world is on the verge of WWIII?
You must have gone nuts during the mid 1980s when we actually were, BEFORE the Russian military empire collapsed.
What is it that you think that Putin wants to have Russia erased in a nuclear holocaust for? What is so important that he wants to launch nuclear weapons?
What on earth are you talking about?
What is it you think I want that is suicidal? Putin to be held responsible by the world for his part is shooting down a civilian airliner? That is not going to cause WW3, not by a long shot. But it may result in the kind of international sanctions that force Putin to stop supporting "separatists" with heavy weapons, training, intelligence, etc, who are attempting to destabilize the Ukraine (because without his boot on the Ukraine, Putin's dream of reassembling some part of the Soviet empire is impossible).