How silly. Who gives a crap what Putin does with Crimea? In no one’s wildest dreams a cause to fight over.
I would not underestimate this man, or his ideology. I have been reading about him, and the new Russian ideology.
This is not an insignificant crackpot. Nor is what is playing out a replay of the twentieth century, with the Russians still as the communists, and us as the freedom loving democracies.
This new ideology is a not a recreation of communism , but a reaction to criticisms of the weakness of western society. Just as we won the cold war by allowing communism to fail on its own internal contradictions, this ideology predicts the same for us. It sees us as the new communists, something conservatives would agree with.
American conservatives are in the awkward position of agreeing with some of their criticisms of western society, but still trying to support our country, even if it means supporting the society with which we have so much to disagree with.
We might not, but that doesn't someone else won't do something (knowingly or unknowingly) that drags us in.