While Nato swills champagne, it’s Putin who calls the shots

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2. Huh? I appreciate that our President is a man with resolve.

While even a rat will venture out into the sunlight to steal bread while the revelers become distracted, eventually the rat will become emboldened and overplay his hand. The faint praise that the right and neocons express for Putin now will give way to the realization that the man does not have a defensible economic strategy or solution to maintain peaceful control over Ukraine. Putin is a fatalist with policies 20 years beyond his prime. He will be dead before Ukraine comes under total control of Russia. And why should our President succumb to the farcical cries of the right "to get a backbone", "stand up" "show leadership". He ran on a promise to secure our nation and keep us out of countless wars. I'm going to assume that the best and the brightest are consulting with our commander and this does not include some sociopath named V. Putin.