Its no long about Putin acting tough. In the last year we've seen a pretty obvious shift in global strength, and I'm not blaming it all on Obama.
But twice now Putin has stared the American's in the face and he hasn't flinched and he's taken the path of what some would consider to be most resistant. And he's won both times.
Waving the flag of sanction in his face isn't scaring him off, nor is the threat of limited military power which seems to be an American creation.
With the emergence in China and the emergence of Russia in Europe and Asia respectively. with the reconfiguration of the Chinese Military from a more defensive army/navy/airforce hiding behind a Nuclear umbrella to a more robust power projection military (Construction of carriers, new quieter subs, Amphibious landing craft). And the reconfiguration and what many are arguing as the professionalization of the Russian Military, the States is starting to look like the weaker and less interested Super Power and starting a slow retreat back across the ocean.
Could we be heading back to the post WW1 isolationist America movement?
Are the Russians winning a new cold war?
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