All quiet on the Western Front

Over the past couple of weeks, the media frenzy over the events at Ukraine have been mind boggling. It usually starts with some Russian movement into the hot zone, annexation of parts followed by speculation by the so called powerful EU taking actions. Something about Angela Merkel not being game about the whole "seduce Putin with your charms, let me handle the rest " idea given out by Obama. rekindle some love and Putin might just fall for the charms.
While Putin would have wanted to take away as much as possible in his kitty bag, I think he didn't want to come across as a needy person, should the Russian population judge.This can be heralded as the advent of the "Cold War".
Well, personally I am a big fan of the USA -Russia cold wars, not because many people die but because of the series of brilliant strategies which are employed by both sides. USA usually goes about arming rebels or creating armed militias who then, out of poor unfavourable treatment meted out to them by their benefactors, resort to eventual " take planes and drive it to their face" strategy. Being unaware of social conventions of the middle-east , USA takes such friendly gestures of nudging each other over tea to be offending and goes to war with them.
Not to my fancy, the USA seems to be bearing the grudge against its old time foe-Russia for invading a country in the pretext of establishing peace( certainly not heard of before). In the follow up of events, which are worthy of the modern phrase "stealing my thunder", the USA has now sought to impose economic sanctions on Russia.(that  must hurt) If things couldn't get more serious, Russia has now sought to do a similar "Right back attcha" gesture, by throwing in its own set of sanctions in the fray. Now, as the cold war gets murkier since Russian milk shakes and chocolates no longer adorning the racks at Walmarts, the woeful denizens of the mighty nations are set to set the streets ablaze. Obama administration with its decreasing approval ratings, has been to blame. For what its worth, Putin will be the one having the last laugh sitting by the Crimea river as he does.