“We need to stay out of this.”
BINGO....
And we are $17 trillion in debt, we are broke, war-weary, and we may get sucked into a situation involving a smei-regional spat with Ukrainian Communists vs Ukranian Nazis.
Didn’t we come close to getting sucked into siding with very bad Syrian elements vs Assad?
Putin is a thug and a monster, no doubt. In the end, like I told someone else, this will probably end with Crimea & Ukraine split down the middle, E. Ukraine going to Russia, Moldava joining with Russia, an that’s the end of it.
Any more than that from Putin and Russia will be wiped out economically with economic isolation, banking isolation, all remaining assets frozen - and then the oligarchs inside and outside of Russia would yank Putin from running Russia.
Double BINGO.