The irony is that we had an opportunity to work with the Russians, we didn’t. We shouldn’t be crying foul when we poked the bear with a stick and it turned around and bit us.
Wrongo, bucko. We were working with the Russians on a lot of things. Still are.
We're having a problem working with Putin. Putin, who has decided the best thing to cement his power is a little Russian nationalism mixed with Soviet style press and fascism.
The petty tyrant threw a tantrum over the Baltics, the Ukraine and Georgia and is now rattling the oil saber. I say oil saber because the Russian military sucks and he knows it. And now his very transparent manipulations of Medvedev is to show there can be a new Stalin and he is happy to play the roll.