[Southack]

Our CIA is confused, no doubt...but Putin is manuevering to flip Germany out of NATO by provoking 0bama into making strategic mistakes.

Bugging Merkel’s cell phone comes to mind. Getting a CIA spy cell caught in Germany, as another.

...and this coming Winter, Putin will shut off the natural gas as soon as the weather brings the first freeze.

Germany may have to pick sides: warm...or...spied on.

[elhombrelibre]

They did. They're with us. They applied enhance sanctions on Putin yesterday. It's going to cost them a lot of money. Given the choice between effete, decadent democracy and old fashion Russian chauvinism, led by a strutting, shirtless, former commie turned ultra-nationalist dictator, they chose the world they know best.