I think some of you guys might be right. We should trust Putin to do the right thing in that region. There are a bunch of Russians in that area, so Putin has every right to just go in and take it. Never mind that the reason the people revolted was because their Government went against the will of the people and decided to go with Russia over the EU. You know, there are a bunch of Russian speaking people in Alaska, and didn't Russia own it before anyway? Oh and what was it that BO said about the Russian military ship docked in Cuba? Oh thats right, what can he say. Putin is old school communist KGB. Bush was wrong about him and so is BO. Putin is not wrong about BO though. A feller once said, "speak softly but carry a big stick". Our "big stick" is now getting whittled down to pre WWII numbers. I think we might just be just left with the "speak softly" part of our history.