Originally Posted by Zeitgeist

...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...