[Marguerite]

“there is a certain irony in seeing Obama repeatedly having his ass handed to him by Putin.”

Putin is running rings around the West at the moment. He is in a position to do pretty much whatever he wants.

The Western leaders are only too aware of the impossibility of going to war with Russia, and simultaneously petrified that the gas taps will be turned off; what we hear from Obama and EU country is only empty rhetoric and bluster.

[mountn man]

The same western countries that swooned over him during his first campaign.

The same western leaders that ensured his Noble Peace Prize.

The same western countries that want to arrest Bush because he was a meanie.