Putin is also really pissed off at the EU now
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040905/asp/foreign/story_3720034.asp
Thanks for the link. I hope that their blind arrogance throws Putin into the coalition with us. Russia is a good country to have on your side in a fight,and I tentatively add,they will undertake to do things that we might have to scruple to do sometimes,if they're really mad or afraid enough.