Henry Kissinger: How The Ukraine Crisis Ends

Actual Kissinger quotation

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McLuhan was right.
From now on, "the victor belongs to the spoils."

Lest we forget...

Russia is a podunk 2nd world nation, fonder of vodka than discipline.

An inconvenient truth...
It makes geopolitical sense that Crimea revert to Russia. A decisive majority of its citizens are culturally and linguistically allied with Moscow more than Kiev.

As for Putin... 

He is a chest-thumping primate.
Consistent with zoological impulse,  it is predictable that American primates, John McCain and Lindsay Graham, demand admittance to the zoo.

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"Public discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation. But do we know where we are going? In my life, I have seen four wars begun with great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to end and from three of which we withdrew unilaterally. The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other -- it should function as a bridge between them." Henry Kissinger in The Washington Post.

Another primate, Charles Krauthammer, wants in on the action: Obama, Russia and the wages of weakness. Vladimir Putin is a lucky man. And he's got three more years of luck to come. He takes Crimea, and President Obama says it's not in Russia's interest, not even strategically clever. Indeed, it's a sign of weakness. Really? Crimea belonged to Moscow for 200 years. Russia conquered it 20 years before the U.S. acquired Louisiana. Lost it in the humiliation of the 1990s. Putin got it back in about three days without firing a shot."Charles Krauthammer in The Washington Post.

Krauthammer seems disappointed there was no bloodshed.