Putin is playing not an all out cold "war" but more of a cold "war of thousand cuts".
Yeah they are trying to bleed the US. Which is why we are playing the diplomatic card making russia look stupid for helping the jihadist in Iran with nuclear tech. Getting slapped in the face by Iran with the enrichment propasal in russia was also a plus.What the US should do is just focus on where we are commited and tell the "parties" involved that if a nuclear attack is launched on US forces in the region or Israel we will respond with overwhelming counter strikes to all the "parties" involved.We all know who the "parties" are in this little game.Russia will either be dhimmis to islam in the future or lackeys of the Chinese. They have chosen their anti-democratic/anti-western path and we should let them wallow in it.