PUTIN STARTED SOMETHING HE CANNOT GRACEFULLY EXIT FROM.
He didn’t start it. He was left with two unpalatable choices, do nothing and watch a NATO dominated Nazi regime move right up to his border, continue killing and ethnic cleansing, and trying to turn Sevastopol into a US Navy base, or go to war.
He really didn’t have too much choice. He did the same thing we would’ve done in the same circumstance. Well, with one exception. We would’ve bombed the living hell out of the presidential palace and seats of government in Kiev.