Putin Threatens Gas supplies to the Ukraine and the West - Ukraine Crisis Latest

Telegraph: Reports the following, " Ukraine: Vladimir Putin threatens to turn off the gas...In threat to switch off Ukraine's gas, Russian president acknowledges gas deliveries to the European Union would also be jeopardised ".

Lets Get Real: 

Let Putin try this, it will be Russia in the long term that gets hurt, this is not the days of the old, not missed USSR, the modern Russia State is part of the international system, if it faces heavy sanctions then the Russian in the street will start to feel the pain, then how long will THE Russian main street support the Kremlin, also the rich friends of the Kremlin will get hurt, how long before they start to place pressure on KGB Putin to back off, unlike Chess, economics is a funny old game, short term win and then long term loss, are you man enough Vlad to take the risk, this blog dares you!.

President Carter CRITICAL OF Hillary Clinton & POTUS - 2nd Term Blues

CNN - Politics: Reports the following, "  Former President Jimmy Carter took a jab at President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over their handling of Middle East peace negotiations in an interview published Thursday. ".

Lets Get Real:

This is not NEW, Carter has been a pain in the backside for his successors, what ever he might say he has never gotten over losing to Ronald Reagan in 1980, he did NOT have a high view of Reagan, the feeling was mutual, Bill Clinton had to put with Carter still thinking he was President, thus the BAD deal with North Korea in the early 1990s.  Jimmy Carter is NOT seen as a friend of Israel, if your Democrat or Republican Candidate for President the last President you want to be compared to IS Carter, its almost an insult, at lest Obama has gone after American's enemies with drone strikes, something you can not see Carter EVER doing.  Obama might be weak in a lot of areas, but give me Obama over Carter any day, just and that is JUST is very small, Carter was a failed President and not much better former President, no matter what the Nobel Prize Committee say or do with the prize. 

Invasion Force for Ukraine - Ukraine Crisis

Guardian: Reports the following from NATO, " Satellite images reveal Russian military buildup on Ukraine's border...Nato images show fighter planes, helicopters and troops which officials say could be ready to move in 12 hours ".

Lets Get Real:

Thus it can be argued that Russia is READY, the question is why the delay, are they looking for a diplomatic victory, hoping the military threat will get them what they want, a Ukraine under their influence, if they do not get that they could take over the entire Ukraine, thus forcing the West to place heavy economic sanctions on Moscow.    The Kremlin could threaten gas supplies to the Western Europe, but then they would lose in the long term, as the Russian economy is to linked to the West to take long term harsh sanctions, the question does Putin care, one can say NOT, his rich friends will care, thus who is better at chess, Russia or the West.