This comment makes one wonder just where the minds of Putin and Co. wonder off to theses days.

About four days ago Interfax carried a comment by Putin that stated basically the Crimea would not have occurred if the US/EU had discussed the Ukrainian association problem with Russian in the Fall of 2013.

Now today again via Interfax Putin is quoted as follows;

15:13 PUTIN: DECISION TO JOIN CRIMEA WAS MADE FOLLOWING SOCIOLOGICAL POLLS, WE DID NOT PLAN SUCH A TURN OF EVENTS INITIALLY

So does anyone have an earthly idea what he means when he refers to "sociological polls"----is he simply stating for the record we seemed to get our own opinion polling basically wrong but we moved anyway.

So maybe everything that has been said about Putin's moves must be revised to include the fact that he does international relations based on polling?

Must be a new Russian novel way of doing business.