[goldstategop]

That and Ukraine is better off rehabilitating itself than throwing away resources on a war it has no real hope of winning.

Winter is setting in soon and even Poroshenko knows Ukraine can’t survive for long without Russian gas. Who is going to replace it? And the country is bankrupt from the rule of various oligarchs who looted it.

[sunmars]

Yeah and the worse thing is, Ukraine expected the west to come to its aid, it didn’t.......They may just turn back to Mother Russia because now they know what the west is all about and could not be trusted.

[palmer]

hUkraine is better off rehabilitating itself than throwing away resources on a war it has no real hope of winning.

Yep.

Now the question for the Putin worriers on this board is how does the next President (forget about Obama) hold the line in Estonia, Latvia, etc, etc. There is some strategizing to be done. Rhetoric is cheap.