As Usual, Sarah Palin Was Right

If only we could immediately swap Obama out for Sarah instead.

AND...IF she were President?

Sarah would?

Go it alone...USA! USA!USA!

Force other countries to assist?

It wasn't clear what tools the U.S. and its allies have to deter Russia from escalating the situation.

"There could be trade or financial sanctions on Russia," said Daniel Serwer, senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. "The problem is no one wants to go back to a Cold War."

A full invasion of Ukraine could risk interrupting deliveries of Russian gas to other European nations and further destabilizing a country that's already on the brink of default and elected a new government only this week. Gazprom today reiterated that Ukraine owes $1.55 billion for supplies of Russian gas, RIA said, citing company officials.

Do you really want to start dropping bombs?

Got any other suggestions, or is a swap your only suggestion?

You think it cost money to find a cure for HIV...wait till you see the price of another war.

Yes...I am.

From MY post

"It wasn't clear what tools the U.S. and its allies have to deter Russia from escalating the situation.
"There could be trade or financial sanctions on Russia," said Daniel Serwer, senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. "The problem is no one wants to go back to a Cold War."

When I said Do you really want to start dropping bombs? You thought I thought THAT was a "Cold War"?

James, James, James...what am I going to do with you.

What are your feelings of having every member of the Olympics from the countries that were signatory to the "treaty" send their medals back to Russia...That'll show em.

You haven't answered this question yet.

Got any other suggestions, or is a swap Presidents your only suggestion?

Definition/Examples of a Cold War

It wasn't clear what tools the U.S. and its allies have to deter Russia from escalating the situation.
"There could be trade or financial sanctions on Russia," said Daniel Serwer, senior fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. "The problem is no one wants to go back to a Cold War.

Let's bring in Condoleezza Rice too as VP. What a force to be reckoned with.
Digger

" Moscow has been sending mixed signals about Ukraine but pledged to respect its territorial integrity. Putin has long dreamed of pulling Ukraine, a country of 46 million people considered the cradle of Russian civilization, closer into Moscow's orbit.

" Meanwhile, Swiss prosecutors announced they had launched a criminal investigation against Yanukovych and his son Aleksander over 'aggravated money laundering.'

" They said police and Geneva's chief prosecutor conducted a search and seized documents Thursday at the premises of a company owned by Aleksander Yanukovych.

" Switzerland and Austria both said they would freeze any assets Yanukovych and his entourage might have in those countries.

" Ukraine's population is divided in loyalties between Russia and the West, with much of western Ukraine advocating closer ties with the European Union while eastern and southern regions look to Russia for support."

The eastern part of what used to be the Ukraine has been linguistically and ethnicly Russian for centuries, and the Ukrainians hate the Russians.

The Vikings sailed and rowed into Russia and the Ukraine, and were the first to set up cities rather than villages, and to found various noble houses. Kiev was a great centre of culture when Moscow was still a town. Additionally the western Ukraine and Ukrainian Catholics look to Europe and Rome, whereas Eastern Ukraine and the Russian Orthodox Russians look to Moscow. It was the influence from the Western Ukraine which was in touch with most of Europe which dragged the Russians toward civilization until Peter the Great finally completed the process. He travelled and worked in Europe, particularly in the Netherlands and in England before returning to Moscow to tell them, they were going to drain a swamp and build a new capitol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Great

The Ukraine is split in half by the River Don, with Ukrainians to the West and Russians to the East. Frankly, That's how it should be now, two separate states, but Putin the KGB guy won't let that happen. He thinks he's John Wayne. That should make him your sort of guy, James.

Rob