Is Russia in US' oil trap, or US in Russia's gold trap? Here is a very interesting article.
Quote, "Grandmaster Putin’s Trap
Thu, Dec 25, 2014
Russia, United States
By Dmitry KALINICHENKO (Russia
Despite numerous success reports in the style of Fox News and CNN, today, Western economy, led by the United States is in Putin’s trap, the way out of which no one in the West can see or find. And the more the West is trying to escape from this trap, the more stuck it becomes.
http://orientalreview.org/2014/12/25/grandmaster-putins-trap/
Only way to halt military aggression is via diplomacy or more severe military response. Putin knows we wont do anything militarily, and even if we did given our recent performance against goat herders and kids with rifles and RPGs, the Russians have nothing to fear. We sabre-rattled to Syria and backed down. And they don't have a nuclear arsenal comparable to our own.
We need to accept the reality that the US isn't a superpower any more. We're just one of the fellas on the block posturing and puffing out our chests trying to impress our fellows.