04-15-2014, 11:14 PM
I think the race is between the US and European countries destabilizing Putin's power through the sanctions, vs Putin invading Ukraine and taking everything up to the Dnieper River. Or possibly Putin is doing some slight of hand with all the building takeovers, just to keep the Ukraine government off balance, as you say. If the western alliance and Putin want to replay 1914, this is their chance. The west could admit Ukraine into Nato and move Nato forces into Ukraine, gradually moving them east. The US could continue its naval buildup. Somebody will get to write quite a novel about it in 2035.