CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It wasn't the weakness of Europe that precipitated all of this. And it wasn't Obama's flinching on Syria. When Putin had to make a calculation whether to go into Ukraine -- and Ukraine isn't Georgia, a small republic that is sort of on the fringes of the west, Ukraine is at the crossroads, a huge country. To go into Ukraine and

SALLY KOHN: Republicans are practically cheering for Vladimir Putin today. He's given them a new excuse to bash President Obama. Republicans are out in droves, suggesting that, if the president weren't such a weak leader, Putin wouldn't be threatening the Ukraine. First of all, did the same Republicans call George W. Bush weak when Putin invade

GEORGE WILL: Well, we are in a position of extraordinary weakness, and I'm not sure it's Obama's fault. I think that we have to avoid -- there's a political scientist named Greg Weiner who calls this the narcissistic policy disorder. That's the belief that everything in the world happens because of something we did or didn't do or said or didn't sa

SARAH PALIN: People are looking at Putin as one who wrestles bears and drills for oil. They look at our president as one who wears mom jeans and equivocates and bloviates. We are not exercising that peace through strength that only can be brought to you courtesy of the red, white and blue -- that only a strengthened US military can do.

SEN. JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ): We can enact economic sanctions. We can have -- there's a broad array of options that we have. Why do we care? Because this is the ultimate result of a feckless foreign policy in which nobody believes in America’s strength anymore. ### McCAIN: The president of the United States believes that the Cold War is over. Th

MARK LEVIN: [Sarah Palin] warned that our response to Russia invading Georgia was so tepid and that Obama’s comments were so tepid that it would encourage Russia in the future to, perhaps, invade Ukraine. They’ve always wanted complete control of the Black Sea, that’s where their navy is. The Ukraine is a sovereign nation. And look what’s h

AP: Speaking in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama says Russia is "on the wrong side of history" in Ukraine and its actions violate international law. He says the U.S. is considering economic and diplomatic options that will isolate Russia.

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