“we must submit”
What are you talking about, “submit”? We’re not “submitting” over the Ukraine. Who runs Ukraine has no bearing on our national interests. That’s like saying you “submitted” in your next door neighbors’ marital spat because you didn’t go over and get involved on the wife’s side or the husband’s.
I’m glad Obama - so far - hasn’t submitted to the neocons like McCain who seem to want us to go to war against Russia.
The US and Imperial Russia had cordial relations, even though back then Russia was doing pretty much the exact same things in that part of the world as now. We didn’t seem to mind too much back then.