THE TRAGEDY OF KREMLIN

It is obvious that Putin's adventure in Ukraine has become his greatest undoing since his sojurn in power. Now his annexation of cremea is fast precipitating his own downfall. How long will the Russians hold out for a failing economy? I suppose this should be THE topmost question on Putin's mind. Yet the West also is complicit in all of this but the consequence of this new cold war extends beyond the geographical sphere of the players. How do one separate all that's happening to Russia to the declining price of Oil? Its all intertwined. But as the elephants fight, let them remember that its the grass that suffers.