I think Obama is actually cooperating with Putin. After all Obama is a communist too. Obama's weak response is just a way to hide the fact that these two tyrants have shaken hands over this outrage. In his heart, Obama is a treasonous tyrant!

I really think that O wants to be Putin's Ceauşescu... then again, you look at the cozyness of Frau O to the Chinese leader & his wife, guess we better start converting these worthless dollars to Yuan, and brushing up on our Mandarin...

I am surprised the media isn't playing more on this cozyness... then again, considering the leanings of the media... maybe not.

They have huge mineral wealth deposits, tho there is a LOT of undiscovered country out there - such "garden spots" as Kolyma are testament to that... The issue has always been how to get that wealth out to the west, and how to get the labor to discover and extract that wealth back east. The GULAG system used prison labor to do just that - and get rid of the troublemakers (read anti-socialists) at the same time.

RICH HOFFMAN in the house! Nice to finally "see" you Rich.

It would have been a different story. In all reality they probably have vast riches in Siberia, but they are too backward to find any wealth on their own. Instead they just plot to steal other people's wealth.

And the ports on the eastern seaboard and beyond are just too darned far away from the rest of Trans-Ural and European Russia to help. We live on the edge of Russia's easternomst push, everyone here knows the history of their realizing the logistics of being halfway around the world didn't make economic sense. Now, had they found the Alaskan and California gold deposits first...

I usually wear my hat. : )

Well put!

Mimi has a Putin mug. Mimi doesn’t have an Obama cup. :)

Russia has been expanding and contracting for centuries. It’s harsh country that has always relied on and fought to control ports to the east of it.

They always did have trouble moving south, but never to the east or west.