A strong Czechoslovakia was a vital piece of the Versailles system. Crimea and even the Ukraine itself does not approach it in importance.
1. We should either make nice with the Russians be honestly willing to do something about them. Obama’s lies just make us all look like fools.
2. I don’t like Putin, and his justifications have a real 1939 sound to them but ... Look at this this way, back when there was a Soviet Union it was OK that all sorts of Russians lived in Crimea, E Ukraine, N Kazakhstan, etc. They were Russians and they were part of Russia and everyone knew it. Say what you want about Russian style elections but 60ish % of Crimeans seem to have put on their fur hats, gone out and voted to be part of Mother Russia. Russians are very nationalistic people. Maybe the borders of Russia should be drawn so that it includes the places where Russians live and have traditionally lived. Is that really our business?
3. If the Russians are willing to have a war over the Ukraine and we are not maybe we should recover some semblance of foreign policy and STFU.