Putin gives Ukrainian seperatist tanks.

Ukraine should just hit the reset button

The US will be standing heads and shoulders above Russia long after Obama and Vlady Vlad are gone. Get Putin's sack out of your mouth. They aren't playing on our level. He has fundamentally weakened Russia in a way that no President could weaken the United States.

Baw.

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Its going to be like this from all sides, as they know what we have in the White House. Dangerous times ahead. Elections have consequences....

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only 2 years and 6 and 1/2 months to go.

I have never had another man's sac in my mouth FYI.

Because nothing says 'I love you'
like the gift of a tank.

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Mr. Obama said Russia would have to comply within “the next two, three, four weeks,”

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I like how he now anticipates moving the "red line"

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How so?

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His fiasco in Ukraine and his support for Assad (which I don't necessarily think is such a terrible thing) has destroyed any illusion that the Federation is anything more than it's ever been. They enjoyed an economic boom as oil prices soared and he has support from many of the most influential citizens in his country. The US and Europe are as certain as ever before, however, that we're still dealing with the same kind of nation that we dealt with during the cold war--though then there was a much broader belief in an apparent parity between our two factions. Russia's paltry threat to pivot away from the petro-dollar is another sign of their desperation. Putin is standing on his own dick to all but his own people (who will decline to the tune of 20-50 million over the next century. They are not capable of long-term self-sufficiency let alone true power projection.

But I look forward to whatever you have to offer. I mean, you lived there.

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His fiasco in Ukraine

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What has made it a fiasco? He has achieved his first goal, that of repatriating the Crimea, an historical part of Russia, to Russia.

By doing that he has guaranteed the Russian navy a permanent warm water port without having to negotiate a new treaty every decade or so with a country that vacillates between European and Russian leanings.

Is that a fiasco for Putin?

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What has made it a fiasco? He has achieved his first goal, that of repatriating the Crimea, an historical part of Russia, to Russia. By doing that he has guaranteed the Russian navy a permanent warm water port without having to negotiate a new treaty every decade or so with a country that vacillates between European and Russian leanings. Is that a fiasco for Putin?

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Ukraine is certainly an historic part of Russia, but he won't hold it this time next year. And he's paid (and will pay more yet) a palpable price for it.

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