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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
Sadly, the question now is....will Putin once again upstage Obama and leave him looking weak in the eyes of the world?
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Sure Putin will, why not? Why giving up doing that when before it has worked so well?
Neither the Europeans nor the Americans will begin a shooting war against Russia over a place that is so unimportant for the West, like the Crimean, or even the full Ukraine.
Regarding other ways of sanctioning the Russians, economically and politically, the Kreml has more than enough capacities and options to fully retaliate for any such step.
In the end, there will be much loud wording, and time passing, then a compromise will be declared and a cleaning of relations, and anything will settle down, with the Crimean having switched sides and Kiew's reputation being left in the dust. Will serve as a drastic disillusioning to Klitschko, I guess, whom I still see as relatively naive.
The Crimean is too important for the Russians, they cannot give it up, they just cannot. No use in seeing it through EU's eyes, the only realistic perspective here is by seeing it through Russian eyes.
This is a fight that is not worth enough for us to pick it up foolish-heartedly.