...he can take his cues from the US and attack, invade and occupy Ukraine so as to preemptively "liberate" the beleagured population. The new US rules of international conflict management: If it feels good, just do it.

Since there's also a sizeable ethnic Russian community in the Ukraine, he could take his cues from a certain someone who freed an "oppressed" minority in the Sudetenland...strange bedfellows. Not so strange really...