Where`s  the European UNION gal or guy who is due to be running around shortly with a note from Putin, saying he has "no more designs on old soviet satellite nations"  who were subjugated by the likes of Stalin..,.. and now Putin.   

"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."
 
"Peace in our time"  was what Britain`s Chamberlain said back in 1938,..... just before the German Nazi`s Adolph Hitler invaded Poland (after lying and saying they had not intention of that) and started World War two.

Isn`t that the seeming request being proffered to the little Russian man now by European leaders, as Putin rattles his sabers and occupies another sovereign nation?  You cannot appease bullies.    But the European Union is doing exactly that with Putin.  
Again..you cannot appease a murdering bully or a tyrant with blood already on their hands.  http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/workbook/ralprs36.htm