Ted Poe actually said...

Putin is the center of all of this. He sees himself as the modern day Peter the Great.

He is not really going to promote humanitarian goals in Eastern Ukraine, he is going over there to take back Ukraine and make it part of Rus...

The U.S., West response has been weak, and it is shown because it hasn't stopped the aggression.

That is his so-called legal justification for invading his neighbors.