Putin is moving cause he knows Bush is weak and soon out and he figures that Obama will probably be elected. He is positioning early to fill in the gap left by the lack of US leadership.
This is a pretty good example of how “peaceful” things will be with a lefty Dem President.
You’re right, if BO is elected our foreign policy and security will be a disaster
But we won’t have a Dem president. It will be McCain and Palin, and they are Real Warriors. I believe the Senate, at least, will go Republican. With right thinking Dems in the House, it wou’t be hard for McCain to get Congress to agree to war with Russia if that’s what it will take. If Putin and the Russians don’t back down, we will need to take them down.