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Originally Posted by grizy
The problem is Putin believes this (why wouldn't he?) about Obama.
I suspect Obama, like rest of the world, isn't so sure about Putin.
Putin, as we type this right now, has seized first mover advantage and I am really not sure we can do anything about it without putting serious chips on the table.
Well, the situation is complicated in that no matter what Obama chooses to do, it will inevitably be wrong in the eyes of the GOP. He gave kind of the obligatory "there will be costs" speech, but it's pretty apparent that neither he nor anyone else knows what those costs might be.
But in all seriousness, this might be the opening gambit not to WW3, but to a new Cold War, one that is less based on ideology than the first, but no less dangerous.