Orac,
When you say 30's are you referring to the 'German' or 'Russian' '30's'?
Putin wants the USSR back. He's not knocking on the gates of Paris.
Don't get me wrong, I guess my opposition to any action other than economic sanctions is more pragmatic. What is a practical alternative without a full-scale NATO deployment (questions of capability aside..)? That could get real ugly, and I'm personally not prepared to follow history and risk a tragedy for mankind all over some place I know nothing or care nothing about.
The people I am sorry for, but there is no such thing as 'fair'.