What do you think the US response to the Ukraine Crisis (Russia's invasion of Ukraine) should be moving forward?

I’ve seen a lot of people both here and elsewhere advocate for a war that they themselves would not participate in…

I am very personally invested in this. I am half Ukrainian and Ukraine has always been my dream travel destination. I was raised very deeply in the culture. If nuclear weapons were off the table…I’d be itching to go fight.

But nuclear weapons are on the table. Putin has broken with decades of calculated decisions and is acting more and more irrationally. We cannot discount that he’d push the button and Berlin, London, even New York is an instant wasteland.

So we make Ukraine our proxy. We throw every weapon and piece of equipment the world can spare at their army and keep them coming until the Russians lose their ability or will to fight. We help the Ukrainians take tiny bites out of the big bear until it doesn’t want to fight anymore.

And we rebuild the iron curtain but with the guns pointed the other way. We stack formations to the west and north of Ukraine like the world has never seen as a fence against one Russian taking one step further. The fear of nuclear escalation is very real at this point…but not even that can deter all actions.

As the losses mount and the sanctions pile up, the Russian people will suffer. They may well end this for us. The oligarchs are starting to slip away from Putin, the Army is disgruntled and potentially running low on supplies…

We keep it coming. All of it. We break their banks and we break their forces and we break their will. And then the Russians will break Putin.

I know this will bring some nasty comments. but I think POTUS has done a good job of uniting NATO and other European countries. I wish he had started earlier, but I understand his desire to gather as much support from other nations as possible.
I have asked repeatedly what we can and should do, with very little response. Let's see how this thread goes.

Thank God for some previous USA faltering with other military engagements.

I'm really happy to see the WORLD stepping up.

I suspect Putin was thinking of a USA/NATO response and now the WORLD seems to be leaving him in the lurch. Maybe I'm over estimating the impact, but what an IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All those foreign reserves Putin squirreled away that are not actual HARD CASH in PHYSICAL possession INSIDE RUSSIA are now WORTHLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are probably also going to be used in the future to pay Ukraine restitution. None of that would be possible without the WORLD stepping up. Putin didn't plan for that. I didn't expect that either.

Other nations in the region now realize, yep, the USA is probably not going to have your back when bullets start flying and they have stepped it up MUCH MUCH sooner. If you don't want Russians walking across YOUR boarders it's YOUR soldiers that will have to stop them (not The USA).

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That all said, a week ago I thought very strongly (and still do to much of an extent, but it has lessened) that before this ends (I as a USAR soldier) I'm going to find myself activated and have a little trip to Europe or somewhere. To the point I'm pondering where I want to place myself in the USAR with a position transfer so I'm either poised to be in a position of probable maximum participation or poised to remain CONUS (i.e. Drill SGT Company command likely to be activated as a TRADOC asset for mass ramp up).

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Finally........ to answer the OP's question. I think US participation should be ready to position ourselves to go into this full force. I hope we continue to see the rest of the world take a lead in reacting to Russia.

Putin really F-'d up. Regardless, all of Western Europe probably doesn't want to end up like Ukraine and doesn't trust the USA deterrence will work. So at the end of all this Western Europe is going to remilitarize and I could see Ukraine nuclearizing. Right? I mean Ukraine gave up their nukes for safety promises and looked what happened. Then after all that, who from the west is really interested in doing business in Russia going forward while Putin is around.

We are a loooong way from this being over. It could go terribly wrong. It all hinges on Putin's willingness to take everyone else down (tossing nukes) with him, and his command and control structure willing to turn BOTH launch keys when he says so.