Cloudswithoutwater

“Why assume this hasn’t gone precisely to plan?

And to achieve this plan, what has it cost them in the short and long term?

Can this event be used to now strengthen our alliances with Ukraine, Poland, etc? Will Europe wake up to the energy threat Russia holds over them? Will China look at this as a threat to their own access to energy and cooperate with the US more? Will this force a vote on the US drilling for our own reserves? Will the US suddenly see just how empty Obama is?

If leveraged correctly, this could have longer term consequences that are unfavorable to Putin, I hope.