All In Good Time

Russia is clutched ever-closer to the bosom.

Yes, there is Clinton's probably sincere, but the wider Administration's purely nominal, non-recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

But that is only until such time as someone, probably President Obama in his second term (when Clinton will be out of the way), feels like saying “Oh, well, we can’t ignore the reality on the ground for ever, and anyway we now need Russian help for…”