Putin and the French

Anytime I speak to my French friends and try to tell them how bad Putin is, they respond by telling me how great the Sochi Olympics were. I reply by saying that $50 billion patches many holes and will blind the less discerning individuals for a while, but they don't seem to see the big, bad Russian bear in the soft-spoken tyrant.

I know that Killy publicly declared that Mr. Putin was one of his best buddies and I wonder if my countrymen continue feeling the same way the day Russian armor vehicles start rolling back into Hungary, Poland or the Czech Republic. Some folks can be slow to react...