Back him into a corner by being against him invading other countries and threatening us in NATO by conquering everything up to our border?
All I am saying is that, given the current regime running THIS country, and the unorganized grab-asstic pieces of amphibious crap that are the Europeans, I don’t think we have much of a plan. In the absence of which things could go badly wrong. This is a regime with more nuclear warheads than we have.
I believe in a vigorous deterrent and I think that Mr. Putin needs to have some limits set for him. However that is incompatible with Mr. Obama’s headlong drive toward unilateral disarmament and general military withdrawal. IOW we aren’t walking the walk, at least as far as it is visible to the bad guys.