Russians are very independent. They haven't been out from under communism long enough for them to forget. Our media makes Putin sound like a bad guy, he may be, but I think he wasn't interested in what the Cabal was offering. He just might be a loyalist to his own Mother Russia and to hell with the rest. The media did the same to Qaddaffi in Libya, but when you speak to Libyans that actually lived under his rule, he was a hero. Do some reading about what he accomplishes in their country. If he hadn't been trying to unite all of Africa in a Pan African Union and established a gold-backed African Dinar, they probably wouldn't have bothered with him. If Hillary hadn't armed the "rebels" with stingers, Ambassador Christopher Stevens and Sean Smith wouldn't have died. Ambassador Stevens was trying to negotiate buying back the stinger missiles, the rebels (with ties to Al Qaeda) rejected the offer.