[Dog Gone]

Russia will pay the price for this. It will be economic, and it will also be political. Putin had his chance to join us, and he turned it down.

[MizSterious]

Putin might have forgotten that the U.S. and the U.K. have spies, too, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if somewhere down the line, Putin finds himself out of luck and out of office. Payback can be a *itch.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Russia will pay the price for this. It will be economic, and it will also be political. Putin had his chance to join us, and he turned it down.

Considering that they have a very long, impossible to fortify border with a China that considers Siberia to rightfully belong to themselves, and has a surplus of about a hundred million military-aged men who will never find Chinese wives -- considering all of that, making bitter, long-term enemies out of the US and UK is a really, really stupid move. Especially considering that all Putin got to show for it was a bunch of now-worthless Iraqi IOUs.