I find the article to be pretty short sighted and not taking into account the reality of todays world. What happened in Georgia? As far as America is concerned, as far as Europe, nothing. Theres no question the Ukraine is larger and somewhat more of a headline. I don’t disagree with that in any way.
You have to look at 5 years of Obama. To paraphrase Hillary what difference does it make what Obama does? Its not what he does but rather how harsh he will claim whatever he does is. So throw Russia out of the G8. Make them listen to Kerry and want to puke. At the end of the day Its how the actions, however meager, are messaged to we the people. The exact same thing will go on in Europe except they with Russia as a neighbor are even less willing to do something but rather more readily accept a message of we tried.
There will be a series of toothless actions, Joy Behar and others will claim wow Obama is so forceful and the people of the Ukraine will be screwed. Thats it. everything else you see now is smoke and mirrors.
A question for everyone. Will the “button pushers” follow obama’s order if he was to tell them to nuke Russia?