Another upset Putinista heard from! I hope the Kremlin pays its little girls well.
No "Putinista" here, Canuck, just a Constitutionalist who is watching a predictable script. I spent the first decade of my USMC career training to fight the old Soviet Union if it ever invaded Western Europe. But the Soviets collapsed, their empire crumbled, and Russia retreated to its own borders. Ukraine does not affect the security of the United States of America in anyway whatsoever. Moscow no longer even threatens Western Europe, though NATO's reset 12-nation eastward expansion is certainly perceived as a threat to Russia's own borders.
The only provocations that I see today are coming from NATO, and this illustrates the risk of being pulled into an unintended war by other nations to whom we have obligated ourselves by treaty. My position is firmly rooted in the principles of Washington and of Thomas Jefferson, who declared in his inaugural address "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none."