economically. he is competing with china for influence over pyongyang. perhaps helping to build a natural gas pipeline to north korea. the question is, if vladimir putin is overlooking the world as a chessboard, what is the endgame? >> it is an international chess game. and he wants the old soviet union. talk about north korea. he won a contract in october to provide internet coverage to north korea. to give them more bandwidth and to give them a greater capability for cyber operations. go back to 1935. there was a soviet dictator named stalin. someone asked him what with the pope think about this? his response was, how many military -- >> i'm sorry want to get this here. is there a military maneuver or positioning that can be done to stop russia?