No drama Obama is smarter than many people think. I happened to listen to his interview with Bloomberg Radio back in 2008 or 2009. He was grilled by three show hosts really hard and demonstrated an absolutely outstanding knowledge of economics and finance. Now, after over a year of US and EU sanctions slapped on RuSSia having been in force we can see this. The US seems to play a long, strategic game with the use of money. Obama wants to force RuSSia into either leaving Ukraine or repeat the 1991 Soviet scenario.

As far as Ukraine is concerned, it has demonstrated more unity and willingness to fight the RuSSian aggressor and supported by RuSSia terrorists than anyone expected. The US started training Ukraine’s elite territorial defence forces at the end of April and in less than three weeks some 300 strong first batch of competent operators of modern US weapons and other battlefield equipment such as deeply coded communication devices and artillery detecting radar systems will hit the battlefields.

The terrorists massed over 500 tanks and even more APCs sent to SE Ukraine from RuSSia. If these 300 receive some 1500 Javelin missiles accompanied by 50 launchers, these vehicles can be destroyed and their crews killed within an hour if they launch an attack without using RuSSia’s air power at the expense of less than$130 million, while over $300 million is earmarked for this purpose by Congress plus a bill waiting for the Senate approval awarding $3 billion in military aid to Ukraine over the next three years.

The more red ink is drawn out of the RuSSian economy, the lower the cost to both Ukraine and supporting it western allies of bringing the RuSSian Federation into insolvency and a break up, as it was the case with Soviets in !991. Putler’s RuSSia is much, much weaker than its predecessor, the ill-fated Soviet Union.