Putin holds all the cards except for one: his pipelines are vulnerable to a prolonged campaign of sabotage and civil disobedience. That's not much, but it's something.
Killing the petrochemical cash flow is what brought down the Soviet Union.
79 posted on 03/01/2014 9:25:26 PM PST by Carry_Okie
(Islam offers us three choices: Defeat them utterly, die, or surrender to a life of slavery.)