Oh dear. To equate Russia's response (illegal as it may be) to Hitler (who was not provoked with 8 years of mass killings of Germans in the Ruhr, Austria or Low Countries) is lazy reporting and demonstrates an unwillingness to actually study the history of UKR since 1991.

Of course it's ACTUALLY "realistic" to trust the people who have been helping the Saudis to starve-to-death a quarter-million Yemeni children, and about a million of their parents, to use our treasury and maybe military to ameliorate the crisis in Ukraine.

If by "having his way" means halting the threats from NATO, halting military provocation near Russia's borders and going back to the EU-sponsored Minsk protocols where everyone in the Donbas stands down, the rebel provinces given autonomy but still in Ukraine and NATO isn't. YES

how did this work out in Syria, Marianne? it prolonged that war so long that it still isn’t over and the death counts just keep going up. millions of refugees

By entering WW3? No thank you!!!

Well go over there and fight.

You know what realistic is? Realistic is the chance that this thing could escalate to nuclear war. Is NATO that important that we should risk nuclear war for it? NATO no longer has any purpose but to justify its own existence by creating conflicts it can then be

No one is saying Putin should "have his way here". What anti-war leftists are arguing is that we need to solve this crisis diplomatically by agreeing to Ukrainian neutrality and re-implementation of the Minsk accords in exchange for a troop withdrawal.

Ah. I knew that's what a lot of the oligarchs in the US wanted to do, but I didn't realize that the basic lesson from the appeasement of Hitler at the beginning of WWII was "Send more weapons to the Nazis."

This is about Russia and Russians, not just Putin who thinks this way. This is complicated, it has a history. amazon.com/War-Russia-Putin-…