Vladimir Putin did his looong press conference today and he blamed Russia's monetary collapse on the EU and these United States, saying we're conspiring to chain the bear...
(meaning Russia):
They won't give up because they will always try to chain it. As soon as they chain it, they'll rip out its teeth and claws.
Maybe Russia could be called a bear back when it was the keeper of the Iron Curtain, but now? Maybe a hyena. Or better a badger.
Russia's economy is the size of Italy's, and vodka and abortion declawed it years ago.