[SunkenCiv]

"So that's leading, Steve? ...When I came into office, Ukraine was governed by a corrupt ruler who was a stooge of Mr. Putin. Syria was Russia's only ally in the region." Obama added that Putin is devoting his troops to the region "to barely hold together...his sole ally."

He ain't wrong.

Meanwhile, Steve Kroft got feisty when confronted about his, shall we say, love life. I give him props for not just having a love-fest with the Kenyan, but Pooty-Poot's continuing to stagger into his own "cowboy diplomacy" (/s) debacles.

• Kasparov: Putin's Goal in Syria Is Chaos

[palmer]

Ukraine was governed by a corrupt ruler who was a stooge of Mr. Putin.

Ir's true as far as it goes, but he left out the 2010 headlines, e.g. "Yanukovych set to become president as observers say Ukraine election was fair" Obama also left out the likely fact that the ousting of the "corrupt" Yanukovych was not just by ordinary Ukrainians and that his replacement is fighting the corruption rather selectively.

[hinckley buzzard]

Seems to me that Russia is gaining influence all the time in the mid east. Iran may not be a formal ally but is drawing ever closer to Russia, and the other states are keeping a weather eye out for the strong horse. Putin is manifestly willing to act, and to disregard the US in the process, with impunity. That gets peoples' attention.