Soetoro is exactly right...

Posted on: January 18, 2017 at 13:54:53 CT

and Russia does this. We spend most of last century dealing with and in many cases appeasing despot a**holes like Putin, so know one has any more interest in learning these lessons again.

Now you use the power of unity and currency as a cattle prod. The problem in the case of Putin is that he has to be aggressive and dumb on foreign policy to overshadow the economic disaster on the homefront. If you look at the timeline of his actions, they often coincide with major terrible economic news about the Russian economy.