[austinaero]

Hmmm,seems to me Putin is a bit busy over in the Ukraine

[Vigilanteman]

If Putin is smart, he will shift focus immediately and send a rescue operation to Iraq. He instantly becomes the hero of the secularist majority in Iraq and replaces the vacuum which BO left.

There is nothing so urgent in the Ukraine which can't be dealt with later and shoring up his southern flank will do nothing but help him. Not to mention that he would be in-line to get a good share of the oil revenues.

[grania]

hmmm...seems to me Putin is a bit busy over the Ukraine

And the US is a bit overstretched with Obama's armed and trained nation-busters busting apart a nation we "liberated" to do all that much about it.