<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:28 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<br>> I can't see any way to lose in this situation provided we let Russia take Crimea. <br><br>Obviously military action is out of the question, but I think sanctions against Russia should be imposed because unless Putin is punished in some way he might be encouraged to invade other countries that were once part of the former USSR like Estonia and Latvia, and they are part of NATO unlike Crimea or the Ukraine. If Russia invaded Estonia or Latvia NATO would be treaty bound to intervene militarily, and I hate to think where that would lead. <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> John K Clark<br></div><br></div></div>