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Originally Posted by nightfighter
There is something in Crimea that he wants, or wants to keep from getting out. What it is? I don't have a clue. It is clearly important enough to have risked all the goodwill he built (and now lost) from Sochi.
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I think he's just trying to disrupt the movement of the last Eastern Bloc states Westward.
Putin really seems to believe he can bribe his own people with revenue from energy, hold Europe by the balls, pretend he's a modern leader with Sochi and still act like a thug.
He may be delusional.
-spence