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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zax who wrote (142663)	3/25/2014 12:21:45 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

But they stopped short, at least for now, of imposing sanctions against what a senior Obama administration official called vital sectors of the Russian economy: energy, banking and finance, engineering and the arms industry. Only further aggression by Mr. Putin — like rolling his forces into the Ukrainian mainland — would prompt that much-harsher punishment, the countries indicated in their joint statement, called the Hague Declaration. This is the heavy stuff still not done......it seems the West is continuing to pull its punches. The NY Times has an article out that Putin has been signalling to the West for some time that he is unhappy. When the West didn't respond, he decided to take Crimea. Apparently, Putin feels that Russia needs to have a buffer of satellite states........talking to you Ukraine...........separating it from the rest of the world: New York Times: After buildup of grievances, Russia draws line in Crimea kyivpost.com