[ClearCase_guy]

I expect Putin will continue to expand.
I don't think the US necessarily has the role of "Putin-stopper".
Going to war against Russia simply does not seem like a good idea at this time.

Now, having said all that, and also begin aware of Hitler's actions cicra 1938 ... it also does not seem like a good time for the US to take a meat-cleaver to our Defense budget. We may find that we really do have a need for those assets in a few years, whether we want to or not.

[annalex]

Yes. I think, at this point our reaction is about right, and, like I said in the article, it is ultimately the people of East-Central Europe that will stop him.