What do you think of Russia invading the Crimea Peninsula? It has the only warm water port for Russia in the Black Sea, was this expected?

There are plenty of ports on the Black Sea's East end that Russia already controls, and it's Navy held berthing and basing rights in Sevastopol and elsewhere on the peninsula. That isn't the reason.
The primary motivation for Russia in my opinion is to bring down the Nationalist government currently ruling in Kiev. No more than that.
The event that motivated this level of urgency was probably the discovery of oil and natural gas fields off the Crimean coast. Russia has used electrical, heating oil, and natural gas supplies at discounted rates to influence former east block countries for years. Discovering a domestic source of fuel was a direct threat to Russian statecraft in eastern Europe, and they decided to deal with it forcefully... all the while claiming to be ever so helpful in Syria to keep the world from answering back more assertively.
The West got punked on this one.

I think I can agree with the Cpl on this one. If the U.N. Wants to snd in troops. We got to let Russia know we are abstaining our vote and our money and Personnel for this contingency.

I would say it is.. they want to control that access.. and not have to pay duties to use it..