re: Hat's off to Putin - he knows what he is doing

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What do you think Obama could have done to prevent this?

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Red lines have always worked well in the past.

The perplexing question isn't what should obama do after the fact but rather what should obama have done prior to Russian troops moving into the Ukraine. Showing Putin we have no resolve to honor our commitments to eastern european nations was probably, in hindsight, a mistake.