Barack and a hard place What will be Obama's ultimate response to Russia's takeover? He will reason with Russians to withdraw He will impose sanctions that will work He will bring diplomatic pressure to extricate them from Ukraine He will go to war if necessary to remove Russians He'll get his foreign-policy expert, Joe Biden, on the case He'll blame Republicans in Congress for the crisis He will settle it through a vodka summit with Putin Nothing – just protests and insults Nothing, he needs this distraction politically Nothing, 'it's someone else's war' Nothing, it's not in America's interests to do anything Other View Results Loading ...