It’s clear that Putin doesn’t need anyone’s permission for anything.
But notice how he did ASK permission of his parliment, which is more than we can say for the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue.
Few people know of the role chess plays in Russia strategic thinking; there were various programmes to train the military and intelligence elites in the art of “chess-think.”
Putin is obviously a chess player, he has always goy several coups up his sleeve.
The US, EU and NATO played one coup of bingo in Ukraine - the government putsch, which fizzled out and now they don’t know what to next, execpt “warnings”, “protest”, “treathen” etc, which hold no water.
Meanwhile Putin is pushing his pawns forward, methodically, without much fuss. The time Obama&Comp woke up to cry ‘uncle”, Putin has already got Crimea in his pocket, without firing a shot.
Kerry is warning Putin that “he’ll lose his place at G8 summit”. I bet Volodya doesn’t give a damn about that unformal gimmick which costs a max to the country host and is totally useless.
I wouldn’t pay $100 millon to see the girly boy Obama and his horse-faced secretary of state department . LOL...