So, there is no position to be taken between doing nothing and war?
The best path for the people of Ukraine is independence.
There are zero people trying to maneuver them into an alliance with either the Russians or the EU who do not have an agenda detrimental to the Ukrainians.
They have all kind of dishonest but transparent excuses to try to argue for pushing them one way or another.
Sure, there are many options, all of which can be summarized as pansy-ass pissing and moaning.
Either Putin will invade, or he won't (this is unknown to all of us right now).
If he is determined to invade, bravado from the lips of John Kerry and Susan Power make that outcome MORE likely, not less. If he wants to stay out, we need to do nothing.
Despite all the Western fantasies which have sprouted like weeds since 1945, the only possible outcomes of war are winning and losing. Putin holds all the cards of a military nature in this situation, AND he has complete freedom of action.
Nothing we do or say will change that - no matter how many gay hosts NBC has on their "news" programs, no matter how may "human rights" bloviators write position papers.
If we stay the hell away from it, Ukraine and Russia have a chance to re-equilibrate without a lot of dead bodies.