re: #116 Dark_Falcon

I very much doubt that President Obama would be a party to any agreement that legitimized Russia’s hold on the Crimea. The optics of it would be horrific and it would be seen as just whetting Putin’s appetite for more. If Obama were to do such a thing he’d be seen as a present-day Neville Chamberlain, and he knows it.

IOW, we don’t need to assume Obama has a pure heart to reject this hypothesis.

Assuming Obama is 1) not terminally idiotic and 2) is capable of considering political self-preservation for himself and the Democrats is more than enough.