I wouldn't take any immediate actions. I would however have moved assets and deployed carriers and submarines to the area and made a VERY big point of announcing such ina very public manner.Grifman wrote:And I'm still waiting on Supreme Commander Rip to tell me what realistic military actions he wants the US to take see he seems to intent on getting into a shooting war.
I would have not said I was considering not going to the summit in Sochi, I would have said point blank I wsn't going and was srongly considering apush to expel Russia from the G8.
I would have announced that he Czech missle defense was back on.
I would have said that we were going to ramp up support for Syrian rebels substantially right away and blockade Russian ships from Syrai until Russian forces were withdrawn from Ukraine.
I would have announced the agreement with Iran was suspended until this was resolved and I was streamlining additional sanctions against Iran and asking congress to expedite sanctions against Russia that would be ready for me to sign if forces were not withdrawn.
I would have signed an executive action freezing all Russian assets as well as the personal assets of all Russian goverment personnel and those of all public and private Russian entities.
I would have done a couple of these right off and every day that I didn't get an indication that Russia was going to withdraw the forces I would do another.
Then there would be zero doubt as to what the cost of interferring in Ukraine would be and there would hang the possibility of actual military action. Which of course is the area we would be most limited because our capability to react militarily right now is extremely limited.