Coercive Non-Violent Foreign Policy

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120201/russian-ruble-collapses-putin-digs

The combination of low oil prices, poor economic policy and Western sanctions are crashing the ruble.  It's inflicting real pain in Russia's economy.

Of course, a wounded Russia is potentially a dangerous Russia.  But the idea that Putin has annexed Crimea and Eastern Ukraine without consequences is simply false.