[Mariner]

"The correct response to this is to put a couple aircraft carriers and several destroyers in the Black Sea a few miles offshore of Crimea and tell the Russkies to get out."

That's insane. Russia would fight an existential war, inclusive of nukes, to protect Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

The US will not. Rightfully so.

[sauropod]

Then we will continue to go down the same path we are on.

Who says it’s not an existential war for us?

Just give it time.