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The Russian occupation of Crimea has challenged Mr. Obama as has no other international crisis, and at its heart, the advice seemed to pose the same question: Is Mr. Obama tough enough to take on the former K.G.B. colonel in the Kremlin? It is no easy task
. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama by telephone on Sunday that after speaking with Mr. Putin she was not sure he was in touch with reality, people briefed on the call said.
“In another world,” she said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/w...ks-to-rein-in-russia.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=0
Germany and Frau Merkel are the ones that should run a reality chrck. That woman runs one of the countries most dependent on foreign trade in the world and acts as though international security were a free good. Why that country can barely put 9.000 troops in the field and is struggling valiantly to raise that number to 12.000 in a few years. The population believes that the EU has guaranteed peace since WWII. She is very good at the game of domestic power politics. But internationally that country is a loose cannon.