How Should the US Respond to Russia?
... Russia has violated all kinds of laws and norms, including most crucially, a treaty that it signed with Ukraine guaranteeing that countrys borders, in return for which Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons... it would be a terrible precedent to allow issues like this to be resolved not through diplomacy, but by force. If Russia could detach parts of neighboring countries with impunity, wont other great powers like China decide that they too can act in such ways...
How Should the US Respond to Russia?
Warpy
(111,254 posts)you'll have to settle for an anemic trade sanction response.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Truman and Eisenhower knew that.
PosterChild
(1,307 posts)...back in the day when the nukes were a much more of a real threat. Remember Solidarity?
Look for some of the Crimean Tartars to be rebranded as "freedom fighters". And that they will be.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)PosterChild
(1,307 posts)...staring them down, not avoiding eye contact.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)When a country is so polarized straight down ethnic lines, there needs to be reform.