What is your opinion (if you so choose to exercise it) on the current events in the Ukraine/Russia/Crimea? Is Putin right to "invade" the Ukraine for reasons of de-escalating regional tensions, border security and protecting ethnic Russians? Or he is an opportunist---I've even read letters to the editor comparing his actions to Adolf Hitler's prior to WWII in "invading" the Sudetenland and other non-German regions of Europeans which were majority-occupied by ethnic/linguistic Germans. An aggressive despot keen to inflate Russia's international status and re-affirm Russia as a "superpower"? Or something else? How do you interpret what's going down? Is my précis out of whack?

Given most of you are Americans, what should the USA do to intervene, if anything? Is the USA even relevant to this at all? (If not, why do I keep seeing articles about what Obama thinks about it?) How many more questions can I pose? Is this too many?

Go!

EDIT: Dammit I can't edit the title but now I wish I'd called this thread "Crimea River".