Russia has invaded Ukraine. If you were the US President how do you respond?

Last time I checked, the Ukraine was not part of the US, so we should not get involved.

Ya Ya Ya wrote:

Last time I checked, the Ukraine was not part of the US, so we should not get involved.

Ukraine, not THE Ukraine.

Ummmmm.....ever heard of Nukes?

It's just Ukraine for now but if Russia successfully annexes the country it will return to "the Ukraine" just like when it was part of the Soviet Union.

Yeah, easy solution, let's just nuke Russia. I don't see how that could possibly go wrong.

Putin realizes how weak Obammy is. If Reagan was in charge, Putin would know better. Reagan is no Pus$y like Obammy.

But what would Reagan do? I've heard this "Obama is weak" stuff from all conservatives and I'm willing to believe it but nobody has told me what a "strong president" would do. I hope you're not implying that a strong president should nuke Moscow?

Ya Ya Ya wrote:

Last time I checked, the Ukraine was not part of the US, so we should not get involved.

This. Ukraine has a large population of Russian nationals who welcome Putin's involvement. It's their problem.

The Ukraine is weak

Sally Vixxxens wrote:

Ya Ya Ya wrote:

Last time I checked, the Ukraine was not part of the US, so we should not get involved.

This. Ukraine has a large population of Russian nationals who welcome Putin's involvement. It's their problem.

Yeah, just like in 1938 Hitler annexed a substantial part of Czechoslovakia while the West agreed it was not its business (the so-called Munich pact

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There also was a large German population in Czechoslovakia welcomming Hitler, and this all eventually led to WW2.

mako wrote:

Sally Vixxxens wrote:

This. Ukraine has a large population of Russian nationals who welcome Putin's involvement. It's their problem.

Yeah, just like in 1938 Hitler annexed a substantial part of Czechoslovakia while the West agreed it was not its business (the so-called Munich pact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

)

There also was a large German population in Czechoslovakia welcomming Hitler, and this all eventually led to WW2.

So Putin is Hitler? WTF?

I'd send in the troops to find and destroy the BioLabs and W M Ds. Then I'd land a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier yelling "Mission Accomplished, Mission Accomplished".

Obama is the strongest president we've had on the military in quite a while. Reagan was a joke. He delayed the fall of the iron curtain two years and completely screwed up the Middle East. We'll spend 100 years trying to fix what he screwed up there. He messed up Latin and South America as well. As to the original question, it's a matter of what did we say we would do? Is there anything in writing? If we guaranteed Ukraine sovereignty, then we will have to go to war. It would be good to get China on our side.

mako wrote:

Yeah, just like in 1938 Hitler annexed a substantial part of Czechoslovakia while the West agreed it was not its business (the so-called Munich pact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

)

There also was a large German population in Czechoslovakia welcomming Hitler, and this all eventually led to WW2.

False. The so called "Munich Betrayal" was put together by several European powers - including the UK - without input from Czechoslovakia.

agterwes wrote:

mako wrote:

Yeah, just like in 1938 Hitler annexed a substantial part of Czechoslovakia while the West agreed it was not its business (the so-called Munich pact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

)

There also was a large German population in Czechoslovakia welcomming Hitler, and this all eventually led to WW2.

So Putin is Hitler? WTF?

No - Obama is the clueless Neville Chamberlain

Sit back and be grateful I'm not from that miserable part of the world and stop trying to turn the US into what Eastern Europe is.

Reagan was not President when The Soviet Union collapsed.

Reagan provided Iran and Iraq with arms and ignored the genocide committed against Kurdish civilians.

Reagan provided the the Taliban with training and weapons.

Reagan ordered the botched invasion of Grenada.

Reagan failed to prevent The Falklands War.

Reagan recognized and supported the white South African government.

Reagan supported UNITA in Angola. They lost.

Reagan tried to depose Gaddafi, by ordering targeted air strikes as revenge for the Berlin bombing, which killed 62 US soldiers.

Reagan was credited with ending the Cold War.

The CIA support for the armed opposition in Nicaragua were a success, bit the US made no attempt to stop the scorched earth policy by the Nicaraguan rebels and the genocide of Mayan peoples in El Salvador..

Putin went for it knowing that Obama is weak. The end result will be war with little to no US involvement.

America would lose a war with Russia.