I guess it just seems odd to me that we have dozens of open threads handed off, one person to another, when a natural disaster strikes or when Syria threatens to boil over. But in this instance -- in what is widely considered the most serious "Cold War" resurgence in nearly 25 years -- it's a haphazard war of competing diaries. A little weird, right?
So, this is an experiment in a foreign policy "crisis" open thread.
If you have an opinion or viewpoint to share on the subject, go ahead. If not, don't. If this is superfluous and not at all in-demand by the community, it will disappear away quickly enough. But putting an "open thread" style venue out there seems like it might be useful, given the highly divergent opinions on the subject.
[Edit: I want to be clear I have an opinion on this stuff! I don't want to have that hidden at all, and I'll express my opinion in the comments. But it's also worth having a neutral starting-off point. And I hope that a diary such as this -- or another when the time is right -- can provide that]