Putin is a nasty dude, but I’d say our reaction, being in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wanting to bomb Syria and Iran, puts the U.S. reaction of the U.S. as “hysterical” rather than “historical” precedent. Kiev overthrew a democratically elected government (granted he was a creep, but was elected), and there are a lot more ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine than there are English speakers or “ethnic Americans” in either Iraq or Afghanistan.
Putin is a nasty dude, but I’d say our reaction, being in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wanting to bomb Syria and Iran, puts the U.S. reaction of the U.S. as “hysterical” rather than “historical” precedent. Kiev overthrew a democratically elected government (granted he was a creep, but was elected), and there are a lot more ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine than there are English speakers or “ethnic Americans” in either Iraq or Afghanistan.