http://www.zerohedge.com/energy/china-talks-buy-cheap-russian-oil-strategic-reserves
Except, let's not forget, "cheap" is now $20+ per barrel higher than it would have been, if not for US "sanctions".
Next I suggest the US threaten to commit seppuku if Russia doesn't allow all Russian transgender soldiers full maternity leave.
At this rate, it might be a long war, with a blinding light for the US at the end of the tunnel.
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon