Canadian Politics Today

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I think this will hurt Russia, too. When a leader can no longer buy off his inner circle with power, privileges, and/or money, they can turn on him very quickly. The sanctions will **** off his inner circle, and personally, I give Putin about six months. However, the eastern Ukraine will have been occupied by Russian forces and a puppet regime will have been carefully placed in Kiev. Putin will be gone but the damage will be done.

[on a very less important note, why are some reporters (particularly American ones) pronouncing the name of the capital to be "KEEV" instead of "KEE-YEV"?]