Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Good for Putin. Hope he does. With so many weak and ineffectual leaders in the USA and EU, he's playing his cards very well and has been for some time. What does he have to worry about from the West? Consequences? Not likely. What anyone outside of Russia/Ukraine doesn't understand is that Russia has been bemoaning the loss of Sevastopol since they broke up, which was very very important to Russia strategically and a tremendous amount of natural gas comes from Ukraine... where prices and paying market prices has been an issue between Russia and Ukraine since the early 90s. The Ukraine has been moving towards NATO for over 20 years. Add to that, Ukraine trying to move to the EU, the possibility of allowing NATO to establish forces, bases, missile sites at Russias front door and Russia has very little choice but to act in their interests.

One lesson pussies will never learn or accept, including Obama is that failing to project strength, is projecting weakness. Project weakness, and there are plenty of nations and regimes in the world that will quickly seize the opportunities as they come up. Remember when Putin was kissing President Bush's ass? Remember him walking around the ranch with a cowboy hat on? He's been testing Obama for a while now and its quite clear that Obama is 100% pure pussy and incapable of dealing with the issues in any capacity... and has demonstrated he's not willing to.

Putin isn't a bad person... he's just a more effective leader in every sense of the word.