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and the rest of the world supported Putin. Hence, the PNAC is reduced to fulminating in the fringes, out of public view.


Putin's also checked the Ukrainian gambit at every turn, showing a maturity and finesse in STATESMANSHIP which the world hasn't seen in ages. He knows his stuff and he protects his people.

The PNAC is itching for a fight they can win, since they haven't won in Iraq or Afghanistan or Latin America, and the constant thwarting of their schemes leads the WH to indulge in public tantrums on the two-year-old level.

The pressure on Obama to produce something other than droning the occasional Muslim wedding party must be intense. Obama hasn't demonstrated the steel nor the support to resist such secret lobbying for evil. He can turn down the voters without raising a sweat, but his corporate masters?

Putin hasn't got corporate masters. He prosecuted them, put them in jail, stripped them of assets. That's the difference, in a nutshell.