Obama makes a rather unimpressive and less than forceful threat against Ukrainian leaders regarding a violent put down of protests - now, I'm not really sure what the proper response should be here viz upheaval in Ukraine other than to say that the West's naive failure to realise that Putin always intended to play hardball when it came to the Ukraine and an association with the EU means Western leaders are at least partially to blame for this mess - but aside from that, I'm curious: with Obama having drawn a proto red line as he's fond of doing and which no one really expects him to honor, will Putin, when the Olympics soon close, attempt to embarrass him once again and paint him as weak by ordering his puppets in Kiev to bring down the hammer? I'd almost be shocked if he doesn't - he's already gotta be pretty pissed about the Russian hockey team getting beat by the Yanks and then run from his pretty little tournament early.
