Vlad and I have this in common.
“Actions speak louder than words.”
Does Obama act like a socialist, or just talk like one?
I don’t know that Stalin, Mao and Castro played one round of golf between them.
Complaining that Putin should “get with the plan” is a little like the 9th century English monks complaining that the Vikings should “get with the plan,” that civilized people don’t rape and loot and pillage any more.
If you want to overcome evil in the long run, you use good: it took almost two centuries, but the Vikings were eventually subsumed into Christian European civilization, and as the Normans etc. they did quite well. In the meantime, of course, tens of thousands of Europeans suffered rape, looting, pillage, torture and death. If you want to overcome evil in the short term, the only effective method is superior force, effectively and perpetually applied.