When a wild animal is backed into a corner, it comes out teeth snarling and biting. Putin is going to strike somewhere. He is not going to sit there and watch this crush his plans for a new Soviet empire. He is going to do something to strike out. Bank on it.
Maybe Pootin could sell the stuff he built at Soshi and get his wasted 50 billion back? The only thing happening there now, after the Olympics, seems to be a tourist rope slide. All that Russian economic development works out so great? Wait to hear that he can’t buy fuel for the Bear bombers anymore——back in mothballs for another decade or so.