Putin has built his ENTIRE two decades in power forging a foreign policy predicated on doing just those things to us!
Our leaders like Dear G. Dubya and Secretary Hillary responded by smiley photo-ops in Moscow and 'resets' of friendship. And then of course, there was President Obama's famous quip to Mitt Romney in 2012's 3rd Presidential Debate:
The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”
Just a few short years after that, Russia invaded East Ukraine and has been there wreaking havoc ever since. 10,000 plus lives lost. Many of them civilians. And deaths continue to mount with news in just today about the death of 3 schoolchildren in an East Ukraine landmine.
It was actually 2008, when then Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin warned:
“After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next.” said Palin.
You really need to stop drinking the koolaid.
The Ukraine had a democratically and legally elected (and corrupt) pro Russian government. America supported what amounted to a coup.
Peaceful pro Russian areas of the Ukraine such as the Crimea and eastern provinces saw their votes didn’t matter.
Obama and Clinton vastly underestimated the resolve of those folks. That is what happens with arrogance and huburous.
And you want Anmerica to get into a shooting war over Georgia? You have lost your mind.