They probably can't do much other than trying to keep this rhetoric, but the truth is that at the moment, and probably for the foreseeable future, Putin and the

They probably can't do much other than trying to keep this rhetoric, but the truth is that at the moment, and probably for the foreseeable future, Putin and the regime "word" lost any worth. Doing what ever pleases you after saying you're doing something, like saying you won't do something while preparing to do the opposite has consequences. Duplicity has consequences. It might work internally, or against smaller isolated countries (regrettably), which is great for dictators... Trust was shattered, even if we accuse the West of being naive - still - in diplomacy trust paramount. I don't see how Putin will set his feet back into this globalized world. Who would trust his word for anything? So if the goal was to completely isolate Russia, destroy it's importance in the global theater in a time of change, that was achieved.