France's Sale Of Warships to Russia Shows Why The West Can't Stop Putin

Another US "ally" abandons ship--literally, by selling to the Russkies.  Putin is running circles around his western adversaries.  He's taken advantage of the fact that this new cold war has interdependent trading partners, and oil money talks--especially in a resource-constrained world.

On the other hand, the US is stuck in 1980's dogma.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/15/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-gas-idUSBREA4E0OK20140515

17 US Warships now off Syria

Nothing of this military build up in the Middle East is being reported by the US media.  All we get is the moronic droning of the fiscal cliff.  We've already fallen over the cliff.  The only questions remaining are where and how hard we land.  The effects of gravity are well-known.

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/145557/17-us-warships-now-off-syria.html