re: #171 JohninLondon

I am not praising Putin. He is as you say a bad hat.

But he faces a naive opponent - and probably can hardly believe his luck.

Obama should have planned to be in Berlin today - to underscore the superiority of democratic freedom over any sort of Soviet system.

Refusing the invite of the German Chancellor looks like a calculated insult.

OK, that makes more sense. I also didn’t know she invited him.