we're back with the panel. steve? >> you had had had 400 russian ñroops doing exercise in the pro-russian region of more dove have a last week. this is russia flexing muscles trying to indicate it's not going to be scared of further expansionism. if you are putin you are like i have got 21 months left with barack obama left in office. he has showed no will to try to stop me from the things i have been doing. i need to do what i want to do and i need to do it quickly. >> joan? >> in a way this is the new chapter and haven't talked about the ballistic missiles with iran which will ci/ the calculus around the whole nuke deal. vladimir putin believes the fall of the soviet union was a geopoliti(p& disaster. he is doing everything he possibly can in his capabilities to restore as much of that old sphere of influence as possible. this is is a person who does not share western europe and