France's Sale Of Warships to Russia Shows Why The West Can't Stop Putin

Another US "ally" abandons ship--literally, by selling to the Russkies.  Putin is running circles around his western adversaries.  He's taken advantage of the fact that this new cold war has interdependent trading partners, and oil money talks--especially in a resource-constrained world.

On the other hand, the US is stuck in 1980's dogma.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/15/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-gas-idUSBREA4E0OK20140515