The author of this Foreign Policy is totally correct---the only way you will finally get the attention of Putin and his personal advisors is truly going after his money---for the Russian elite-it has been and will always be about the money.
While Obama has refrained from it and sent subtle signals trying to get Putin to rein it in---now maybe a really big cannon shot splashed across the front pages of the morning's global media might be the nudge to make him wake up and smell the coffee.
Putin is a hardcore basic Communist of the old days kind-he does understand when he is threatened and he will move if the threat is serious enough---there has to be some old guard Communist intel specialists still left in Washington that have not retired?
It seems the blogger world is far more in tune to world politics and what can be done without firing a shot than the entire US NSC, CIA, DIA, and NSA---as they have definitely been beating them to the news cycles.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article...n_ukraine_mh17
The Russian leadership right now appears to be in an altered state of reality---maybe psychologists instead of the NSC should be handling the US responses to Putin?
Interfax from today:
20:13 Moscow accuses Washington of fomenting tension in Russian-U.S. relations (Part 2)
So exactly what does the Russian leadership think they themselves have been doing in all of this since the Crimea? This is that old Russian game of everyone else is at fault but not us.
It will continue until someone cuts off the money and the reality of that seats in.
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