“But I think he’s making a strategic error in that eventually the West will wake up and he’ll be over-extended.”
That assumes “The West” isn’t led by a pompous idiot, that is trained as an agitator. There is NOTHING in Obama’s background, or the backgrounds of those around him, like John Fraud, that has prepared them for a situation like this.
The usual demonization and Alinsky tactics aren’t working against Putin, who could care less about being called a racist in the US Media.
But then Germany seems to have lost its pride.