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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama delivering on ‘flexibility’ vow to Moscow

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., questions Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing focusing on the Defense Department’s budget request for fiscal year 2015. The committee's ranking member Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. is at left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCain: Putin will not leave Crimea

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 2010 photo released on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip in Ubsunur Hollow in the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), on the border with Mongolia, Russia. Vladimir Putin turns 60-years old on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, and has recently sought to demonstrate his youthful vigor by many personal endeavors, but while he has shown creativity in his action-man stunts, the Russian president seems surprisingly vulnerable to the vagaries of oil prices. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service, file)

ISTOOK: Meet Vladimir Putin’s best friend — America’s energy red-tape

By Ernest Istook

FILE - In this June 15, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates testifies regarding the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2012 budget request before the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gates asserts in a new memoir that President Barack Obama grew frustrated with U.S. policy in Afghanistan and that Vice President Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue. He also accuses members of Congress of inquisition-like treatment of administration officials. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Gates: Obama strategy won’t stop Putin

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference, Thursday, March 6, 2014, in National Harbor, Md. Thursday marks the first day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Cruz: Putin taking advantage of Obama’s weakness

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Biathlete Mykhaylo Tkachenko, representing Ukraine, enters the arena during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics at the Fisht Olympic stadium in Sochi, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Plea for peace and Ukraine’s independence in Sochi

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics at the Fisht Olympic stadium in Sochi, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Putin declares Sochi Winter Paralympics open

Associated Press

US warship the USS Truxtun sails in Bosporus Strait en route to the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, March 7, 2014. The Navy destroyer USS Truxtun is participating in exercises with Romania and Bulgaria and is expected to be in the Black Sea for several days amid a stand-off over Russia's military incursion into Ukraine. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

LYONS: How to respond to Russia’s thrust into Ukraine

By James A. Lyons

Biathlete Mykhaylo Tkachenko, representing Ukraine, enters the arena during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics at the Fisht Olympic stadium in Sochi, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Putin declares Sochi Paralympics open amid Ukrainian protest

Associated Press

Crimea's prime minister Sergei Aksyonov, center, enters a hall prior the talks in Russian Parliament in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. Valentina Matvienko, speaker for Russia's upper house of parliament says Crimea would be welcome as an &quot;equal subject&quot; in Russia if the region votes to leave Ukraine in an upcoming referendum. Russia's parliament is planning to review a bill as early as next week that would speed up Crimea's integration into Russia. Crimea would be the first territory to officially join Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. (AP Photo/Alexander Shalgin)

Russia in patriotic fervor over Crimea

By LAURA MILLS and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, speaks to students at the University of California Los Angeles campus on the subject of leadership Wednesday, March 5, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Clinton slams Putin, a day after her Hitler remark

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses Russian ambassadors July 9, 2012, during a meeting in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. (Associated Press)

Historian: Valdimir Putin using Peter the Great tactics

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian Navy officer looks at the scuttled decommissioned Russian vessel &quot;Ochakov&quot; from the Black Sea shore outside the town of Myrnyi, western Crimea, Ukraine, Thursday, March 6, 2014. In the early hours of Thursday Russian naval personnel scuttled the decommissioned ship, blockading access for five Ukrainian Naval vessels now trapped inside of the Southern Naval Headquarters located in Myrnyi in Western Crimea as Russian war vessels patrolled just of the coast. The vessel was brought by Russian naval forces on the 4th of March towed by a tug boat while escorted by a warship and several gun boats. Marines from the Ukrainian navy heard a loud explosion in the early hours of last night coming from the vessel blocking a channel leading to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Crimea to vote to split from Ukraine, join Russia

By YURAS KARMANAU and JUERGEN BAETZ - Associated Press

In this image taken Wednesday, March 5, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures speaking at his meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow. As a counterweight to the European Union, Russia’s Vladimir Putin is pursuing an ambitious dream rooted in memories of Soviet glory: The Eurasian Union. It’s a strategy to pull former Soviet satellite states back into Moscow’s orbit through a combination of incentives and threats. And embattled Ukraine, a huge country of 46 million people, has lain at the center of the game-plan. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, Pool)

Putin uses carrot and stick to dominate neighbors

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

**FILE** German Chancellor Adolf Hitler (right) salutes a huge crowd July 31, 1938, at a sports meeting in Breslau, Germany. (Associated Press)

PRUDEN: Likening Putin to Hitler on Ukraine shows Hillary’s shaky grasp of history

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama slaps Putin with sanctions, restrictions on visas

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A woman holds a poster against war at Kiev's Independence Square, in Ukraine, Thursday, March 6, 2014. The Heads of State of the EU will meet Thursday in emergency session in Brussels to discuss the situation in Ukraine. The destroyed trade union offices which was burned in clashes seen in the background (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

U.S. mocks Putin: You’re full of ‘Russian fiction’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

HIllary Clinton tries to walk back Putin-Hitler slam

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Mystery Men: Some of the troops on patrol in Crimea in unmarked uniforms are Spetsnaz, special forces who are contracted professionals rather than draftees. Russian President Vladimir Putin has built a military force capable of reclaiming territory lost in the Soviet demise. (Associated Press)

Putin has transformed Russian army into a lean, mean fighting machine

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times