[Always A Marine]

Buchanan is right about Ukraine, and the folly of American meddling on Russia's border. The introduction of direct military aid to Kiev, along with the US military "advisors" (remember that slippery slope?) already on the ground, may prompt Moscow to intervene directly and overwhelmingly to secure a broad land bridge through the eastern Ukranian oblasts to Crimea. Sevastopol is Russia's one and only warm water port, and that makes Crimea a strategic imperative for Moscow. Ray Charles can see that NATO wants to take Sevastopol from Russia.

What today's American warhawks fail to recognize is that any fight on Russia's own border is an existential threat to Russia. When the 6'5" 300-lb Michael Brown attacked the much smaller Darren Wilson, he gave the police officer the justification to use any force necessary to end the immediate threat to his life. Likewise, if the American military machine jumps into a civil war against Russia's interest along Russia's border in order to sieze a vital Russian port, Moscow will be be justified in using all means at its disposal to end the military threat to its existence. History is full of cocky leaders who thought they knew how things would turn out, but were tragically wrong. This is a very dangerous game, and the civil war in Ukraine is none of our business.

[ansel12]

the folly of American meddling on Russia's border.

Russia is invading a nation on NATO's border.

[tcrlaf]

“History is full of cocky leaders who thought they knew how things would turn out, but were tragically wrong.”

As Wolf Blitzer plainly noted on CNN yesterday, it is now PERSONAL between Obama and Putin.

Given what we already know about Obama’s personality and childish spitefulness, that’s a damned scary thought.