[riverdawg]

” ... if Russia starts a war, it never stops until it takes the capital. That's all the Russian wars.”

He conveniently forgot about the Russo-Japanese War, in which Russia got its @$$ whipped.

[mrmeyer]

Or the Battle of Warsaw 1920. Look it up.

[Verginius Rufus]

Russia was also on the losing side of the Crimean War, and was beaten by Germany in WWI (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918).

If Obama had not been re-elected, Putin might have been more cautious in grabbing other countries' territories. Will he go after the Baltic nations before Obama's term runs out?