It appears the crisis in the Crimean section of Ukraine is amping up big time. Russian president Vladimir Putin is asking his parliament for authorization to use military force in Ukraine.
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This is obviously going to raise tensions in the region as well as tensions between us and Russia, but at the same time Ukraine does border Russia, and if a similar uprising were happening in Mexico along the US-Mexico border, we would probably feel entitled to intervene ourselves without the approval of the UN. This is a complex situation, yet leave it to the yahoos at Fox News to already be advocating another war. Hello? This is Russia we're talking about; not some two-bit third world country. And as for those questions about how Putin is making us look weak, I ask, what exactly would Mitt Romney or John McCain would have done at this point?