Erm... the reality is that is very much impossible. Unless good chunk of western Europe wants to have its lights shut off. They import almost half of their natural gas and a big chunk of oil from Russia. The Russkies got them by the balls, *and*, we pissed them off royally lately. We completely told them to go pound sand over Kosovo. We have been pushing NATO forward. We have pushed ABM defense into Poland literally to their border. And, somehow, all this time, they were quiet - building up their strength and now time has come to assert to the west that things may not be quite what the west believes them to be. It’s a good wake up call to the Eurowheenies who couldn’t defend themselves now from the Islamist within their own borders, not to mention a resurgent Russia.
All the more important we get McCain elected, wrap up Iraq and start giving a bit more bandwidth to other areas of the world.