Especially when dealing with Russians, subtlety gets you nowhere; you must tell them, bluntly, what you want to happen. For example, when someone asked President Reagan to explain the objective of his Cold War strategy he replied: We win, they lose.
As President Reagan might have put it:Well, here we go again….
Last month’s shoot down of Malaysia Air Flight 17 over Ukraine has made clear to just about everyone — certainly to President Obama and even to some of Western Europe’s most feckless leaders — what should have been obvious a long time ago: Russian President Vladimir Putin is a serious threat to world peace. Continued