[Jim Robinson]

"The alternative is grim. Should Putin be allowed to keep Crimea and redraw the map of Europe so easily, he will be rooted even more deeply in power in Russia and continue to be a threat and destabilizing force in the region."

Sorry, that's a done deal.

[tcrlaf]

“Sorry, that’s a done deal.”

Agreed...
The time to stop Russia from doing something like that was was lost in the US Elections.

And you STILL cannot find a lib willing to say that Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney were correct about Russia, and that Obama was utterly wrong, because MSNBC, the late-night comics, and The Daily Show haven’t told them it is OK to think that, yet.

[Cyber Liberty]

Putin will leave office the same way Juan McQueeg will. Feet first, toes up.

[Mike Darancette]

Do not fall for any Western attempts to save face, even if Obama waves a piece of paper and declares, ‘Peace for our time!’

Obama was waving a piece of paper today with 7.4 million printed on it. That assumes that nobody who had signed up since October has quit, not paid or died.