The liberal MSNBC host Chris Hayes openly wondered whether President Obama's opening salvo of "relatively mild sanctions" against several Russians and Ukrainians will be enough to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from moving further into Ukraine Monday evening.
Hayes likened Putin's successful incursion into Crimea to America's seeming addiction to Vietnam troop withdrawals during the Nixon administration, an oddly conservative argument for the normally pacifist far left talking head:
CHRIS HAYES: Henry Kissinger once told President Nixon that withdrawals of troops from Vietnam were like salted peanuts, to which the people would become addicted. After this weekend's vote in Crimea, I'm left wondering are we viewing something in reverse? Will Vladimir Putin be able to resist the temptation to annex something else? If Crimea went so easily why not Donetsk, or Kharkiv, the biggest city in Ukraine and only a few miles from the Russian border. And if this round of relatively mild sanctions is not the end, what does the next step look like?
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