Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
So again mirhond---a great Putin "win" is it?
It's actually starting to look like a great Putin debacle, though he'll still be claiming credit for reclaiming Crimea.

It's actually a bit ironic. Not so long ago on this very thread we were beinmg told that Putin is a genius and Obama a fool, that Putin was in control and working Obama, and that unless the US leaped up and responded with all manner of dramatic moves, the Ukraine would be lost and all of Eastern Europe imperiled.

Seems it hasn't worked that way. The Russians seem more than ever disinclined to invade, and their proxies are retreating in disarray. Is it possible that the US really didn't need a dramatic response? That Obama may have actually had it right? That the prophets of doom here might have been... [insert theatrical gasp}... wrong??